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- From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Subject: Re: Automatic lang. determination of titles/subj. lines?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160618.9329@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.163448.17017@daimi.aau.dk> <2216@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In article <2216@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- > Actually, it would be interesting to know whether anyone has letter, digram
- > and trigram frequency tables for various languages, Anyeone?
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- Helen Gaines's book ``Elementary cryptanalysis; a study of ciphers and
- their solution'' has some tables for other languages, as I recall. Note,
- though, that there's no one table for any given language; you have to
- have statistics based on the kind of traffic you're looking for. To give
- an obvious example, recent traffic in this newsgroup would show a weird
- distribution of the digraphs ``pg'' and ``gp''.
-