Help, random letter

In stitches, an Acre

myplezehi

the letter you were thing of was e

and the next one will be j




















fooled you it was k

I'd get into a bad habit where one of my correspondents gets too much

Maybe, maybe not.

It's not all up hill and down dale until the rabbit hole is reached.

Just memorise this table:


US Census 2000 first letter of last name distribution.

"A": 0.03559596939643605,
"C": 0.07694824074741784,
"B": 0.08791477424094518,
"E": 0.018669123556424614,
"D": 0.04579860597727158,
"G": 0.05439868577642196,
"F": 0.034505834128967044,
"I": 0.003955862892091837,
"H": 0.07268753217954918,
"K": 0.03294327720020791,
"J": 0.03025983302791189,
"M": 0.09608053808826617,
"L": 0.04848650695769241,
"O": 0.014720280137130485,
"N": 0.018547007013788936,
"Q": 0.002206565702878153,
"P": 0.049319930077139015,
"S": 0.09580978699464698,
"R": 0.05763521983707609,
"U": 0.002210911090800405,
"T": 0.035309842314786705,
"W": 0.05861438058222256,
"V": 0.015875707643636012,
"Y": 0.006166216881876424,
"X": 0.00024144758019273616,
"Z": 0.005097919974221793

Damb, thanks, and no offense but could you please provide a link to my posting in which I was supposedly thinking of the letter 'e'

Edited to note 'fooled you it was k' and still no offense but still in Acre of confusion . Still thanks a million for your patience and forgive lousy puns

Are you using Windows or Mac? You can write a simple bat program in Windows to select a random digit from 1-26 at random 1-10 second intervals then take the result and convert it to a letter.

If result = 1
Print A

Or if you are familiar with programming you can write it as an array to correspond to a letter then change random from 0 to 25.

letterArray = a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,......;
randNumb = Rand(0,25);
resultLetter = letterArray[randNumb];

print resultLetter;

Thanks Krump, I'll ask my pc-savvy No. 2 Son on his next visit

Hello test

1234

Receiving

ABCDe

A random number/letter generator would need to adjust for the different frequency of names beginning with those letters not just derive a uniform distribution.

Any way, why would your son get involved in a computer program, have you forgotten that you want to do this without extraneous device.



When you typed 'e' in the sentence above and when you read 'e' when I typed the original 'e', and now you've done it again. Easy now.

Mag'sponse, Biti; I am left in stitches, and thank you again

Temporarily I've adopted the expedient of glancing at digital clock then adding hours and minutes. Trouble is, it requires another clock

Wow Red, I hadn't occurred to me! Thank you for yur determined effort on behalf of an oldster