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The bitstream test counts the number of missing 20-letter (20-bit) words in a string of 2 21 overlapping 20-letter words. There are 2 20 possible 20-letter words. For a truly random string of 2 21 + 19 bits, the number of missing words j should be (very close to) normally distributed with mean 141,909 and sigma 428.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter B. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
This is a set category.It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
words end in consonants more frequently than in Finnish, word-final b, d, v being particularly typical letter d is much more common in Estonian than in Finnish, and in Estonian it is often the last letter of the word (plural suffix), which it never is in Finnish
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
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The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...