Re: Letter Frequency

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From: Bernd Felsche
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 05:45

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In <DON.92Oct27093940@bullwinkle.eecs.umich.edu>
   don@eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor) writes:

>I've got some real-world data on ASCII character frequencies that
>might be of interest.  This is compiled from our Usenet news spool
>area, and as you can see, it represents a very large sample; about
>1.5 gigabytes. ....

Does that include the headers? (And signatures?)

>Usenet news articles at eecs.umich.edu, October 1992

>Total sample size:  1527985763 characters

> RANK  CHAR     FREQUENCY  FRACTION
>    1  20  SP   201371828  0.131789073
>    2  65  e     99878730  0.065366270
>    3  74  t     69353427  0.045388791
>    4  61  a     64864522  0.042450999
***** this is a bit early isn't it? ****
[etc]

Could you please uuencode your news spool and send it over
so that I can run my frequency analysis over it? :-)

--
qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
(just to skew the statistics a bit :-))
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From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: Letter Frequency
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