From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Dec 04 19:40:41 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 5428 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 03:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Dec 2004 03:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ratanakiri.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.37) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 03:40:40 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by ratanakiri.reutershealth.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iB53e8d6014349; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:40:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:40:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:40:23 -0500 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20041205034023.GI6154@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20041204184629.GU25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20041204234414.GC6154@skunk.reutershealth.com> <20041205030622.GW25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041205030622.GW25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.37 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Updated Letter Frequency Data X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23469 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > I don't see how that's appropriate for scrabble, actually, Because you want to assign a score to a Scrabble letter based on how rare it is in the Scrabble wordlist, without taking into account how rare or common that particular word may be in running text. > edit my data to work that way trivially: Note that the relative frequency of "l" drops from most common consonant to fourth most common, because its constant use in gadri is no longer important. -- A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The cause of his sorrow http://www.reutershealth.com Was para-dichloro- jcowan@reutershealth.com Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT)