3 Aug
2010
3 Aug
'10
6:41 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
It was not intended to print C code listings?
<VBG>
I'm just trying to be funny of course, and you'd miss a lot more than
just the ';'. However, if you're like me and pretty much loathe the
ternary operator, you might not miss the '?' at all...
Later,
Charlie C.
>>>
The 64 character rows are laid out, thusly:
>>> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 . 8 , 9 - E T A I S O N H R D L U C M F W Y P G
>>> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 . 8 , 9 - V B K J $ * Q X Z # / + : = ' ( ) > <
> When using frequency of usage for probabilities in code breaking, the most
> common sequence (from most common letter to least) is often
> E T A I O N S H R D L U
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Rich Alderson wrote:
That's for English. Other Latin-alphabet
languages will have different
frequencies.
Absolutely!
I think that French has 'L' near the top.
Can you think of what language has 'S' a few characters closer to the top
than English?
Is there any significance to which characters are NOT present?
(such as '?' ';')