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# letter_probabilities.py
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# author: Kristina Striegnitz
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# version: 1/27/2010
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# If we randomly pick a letter from an English text, how likely is it
# that this letter is an "a", a "b", etc.? Given a letter, this
# function tells you what that probability is.
# From: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CS5/CaesarCipherGold
def letter_prob( c ):
    """ If c is the space character or an alphabetic character,
        we return its monogram probability (for english),
        otherwise we return 1.0 We ignore capitalization.
        Adapted from
        http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/krypto/en_stat.html.
    """
    if c == ' ': return 0.1904
    if c == 'e' or c == 'E': return 0.1017
    if c == 't' or c == 'T': return 0.0737
    if c == 'a' or c == 'A': return 0.0661
    if c == 'o' or c == 'O': return 0.0610
    if c == 'i' or c == 'I': return 0.0562
    if c == 'n' or c == 'N': return 0.0557
    if c == 'h' or c == 'H': return 0.0542
    if c == 's' or c == 'S': return 0.0508
    if c == 'r' or c == 'R': return 0.0458
    if c == 'd' or c == 'D': return 0.0369
    if c == 'l' or c == 'L': return 0.0325
    if c == 'u' or c == 'U': return 0.0228
    if c == 'm' or c == 'M': return 0.0205
    if c == 'c' or c == 'C': return 0.0192
    if c == 'w' or c == 'W': return 0.0190
    if c == 'f' or c == 'F': return 0.0175
    if c == 'y' or c == 'Y': return 0.0165
    if c == 'g' or c == 'G': return 0.0161
    if c == 'p' or c == 'P': return 0.0131
    if c == 'b' or c == 'B': return 0.0115
    if c == 'v' or c == 'V': return 0.0088
    if c == 'k' or c == 'K': return 0.0066
    if c == 'x' or c == 'X': return 0.0014
    if c == 'j' or c == 'J': return 0.0008
    if c == 'q' or c == 'Q': return 0.0008
    if c == 'z' or c == 'Z': return 0.0005
    return 1.