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by allannienhuis 680 days ago
Why does it need to be perfectly accurate? These are examples intended to communicate the principle, not instructions on how to do frequency analysis. This description may be incomplete, but it does make it pretty clear how frequency analysis works in general terms. This criticism seems misplaced to me.
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> These are examples intended to communicate the principle, not instructions on how to do…

Thank you. A lot of people don’t get these are two different things. I’m not going for perfect, I’m going for “oh I get it.”