[lojban] Re: Updated Letter Frequency Data

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> My data, sorted by number of occurences:

[snip]

> The only previous work on this I'm aware of is:
> 
> http://www.lojban.org/files/papers/scrabble.unf
> 
> Which, it turns out, is amazingly flawed (which is fine, because
> that was a long time ago!).

The two sets of statistics aren't comparable, because the Scrabble
data counts each distinct word only once, which is appropriate for
Scrabble.  Your data (I assume) counts every letter in the running text.

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