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"Letter frequency" is not the same as "letter occurences". The title hints that more is needed in the task description. It would seem that some description of output is required as well. --[[User:Demivec|Demivec]] 16:43, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
It seems that many program examples interpreted a ''letter'' as a ''character''. A (Latin) letter has two forms: its uppercase and lowercase version. So if two '''H''' characters and three '''h''' characters were in a file, then there would be five occurrences of the letter '''aitch'''. [''Aitch'' is the English name for the letter '''H''' or '''h'''.] The task description could've been more clear on that point, so for the REXX version 1, a count was done for each (Latin) letter, AND also for each character, and the counts are provided in
:The English
:: One may pronounce it that way (depending upon which side of the pond you're on), but the spelling of the letter isn't that. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:13, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
In hindsight, it would've been nice to make a requirement to use the program example as the primary input (but not necessarily the only input); that way, everyone could see what was used for its input. At least one example used UNIXDICT.TXT, which has no capital letters. Another example only counts capital letters. Still others showed a list, but excluded most of the counts, so it can't be verified if the uppercase letters were included (or not) with the lowercase letters, or kept as separate counts. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:19, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
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