Re: Characters

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2011 - 05:17:21 CST

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    The most common letter in English text is "e". Does its high frequency
    on the web just confirm that most web content is still in English?
    mg

    Scríobh 14/02/2011 10:57, Charlie Ruland:
    > * Mark Davis ☕ [2011-02-14 03:26]:
    >> As it turns out, when looking at HTML pages on the web (with a
    >> good-sized sample from work here at Google), SPACE is the most
    >> frequent character (by a huge margin). That is even true on Chinese
    >> pages, just because of the proportion of markup on pages.
    >>
    >> For those interested, the most frequent Alphabetic is 'e'.
    > I would be interested if I wanted to compress the entire contents of
    > the Web, but I don’t.
    >
    >> /— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —/
    > /— La ragione è l’inimico del //sognatore//—/
    >
    > Charlie
    > --
    > ERROR·COMMVNIS·FACIT·IVS

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