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