Question:The CIA has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters
of the alphabet in an attempt...
Question
The CIA has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters
of the alphabet in an attempt...
The CIA has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters
of the alphabet in an attempt to decipher intercepted messages that
are sent as ciphered text. In standard English text, the letter r
is used at a rate of 6%. In an intercepted ciphered message sent to
Mercer, a page of 2600 characters is found to have the letter r
occurring 200 times. Is this unusual?