Re: pure chance

Glenn Morton (grmorton@gnn.com)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:49:54

Brian wrote:

>But now let's suppose the letters don't occur with
>equal probability. After all, our example is English
>and the letters in English phrases don't occur with
>equal probability.

There is also the fact that certain letters are more likely to appear after
other letters which further stilts the probability. For instance the
appearance of u after a q is nearly .99999 certain.

glenn

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