The Central Intelligence Agency has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters of the alphabet in an attempt to decipher intercepted messages. For example in Standard English text the letter “r” is used at the rate of 7.7 %. Choose another letter and using the Internet determine its usage rate. In an intercepted message sent to Iraq, a page of 2,000 characters is found to have the letter “f” occurring 42 times. Discuss if this is unusual
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