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3.3 Example

For brevity, consider an invented language with the 4-letter alphabet {a,b,c,d}. Mark spaces between words with a hyphen (-) and assume no punctuation. Figure 10 shows a portion of text using this invented language. The following sections demonstrate how to collect and organize frequency data using frequency tables.

  
Figure 10: Example Text for Invented Language
\begin{figure}
\center{\fbox{\texttt{-a-aaa-abba-abc-ac-ad-ada-add-baa-bad-cab-cb-cdc-dab-dad-dada-dc-}} }
\end{figure}



Thomas Yan
2000-05-01