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  2. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    Zipf's law can be visuallized by plotting the item frequency data on a log-log graph, with the axes being the logarithm of rank order, and logarithm of frequency. The data conform to Zipf's law with exponent s to the extent that the plot approximates a linear (more precisely, affine ) function with slope −s .

  4. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    For this example, uppercase letters are used to denote ciphertext, lowercase letters are used to denote plaintext (or guesses at such), and X~t is used to express a guess that ciphertext letter X represents the plaintext letter t. Eve could use frequency analysis to help solve the message along the following lines: counts of the letters in the ...

  5. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    The letter X is also only used in loanwords, but it is not so rare, so it is included. The digraphs CH, DZ, and DŽ, although considered single letters in the Slovak alphabet, are played as pairs of letters. Since 2013, a new 112-tile set was introduced, including the letters Q and W: 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)

  6. Huffman coding - Wikipedia

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    Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information).

  7. Aristocrat Cipher - Wikipedia

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    The Aristocrat Cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher in which plaintext is replaced with ciphertext and encoded into assorted letters, numbers, and symbols based on a keyword. The formatting of these ciphers generally includes a title, letter frequency, keyword indicators, and the encoder's nom de plume. [1]

  8. Template:Letter frequencies in 11 languages - Wikipedia

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    Relative frequencies of letters in the English language and in other languages Polish language frequencies have been corrected because the shown values are calculated with punctuations Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages.

  9. Letter frequency effect - Wikipedia

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    The letter frequency effect is an effect of letter frequency, according to which the frequency with which the letter is encountered influences the recognition time of a letter. Letters of high frequency show a significant advantage over letters of low frequency in letter naming, [1] same-different matching, [2] and visual search. [3] Letters of ...