CAESAR(6)

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💅 CAESAR(6) — Games Manual, but make it a group chat 💅

okay so bestie, meet caesar and rot13 — the little Unix girlies whose whole thing is decrypting caesar ciphers. 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

caesar, rot13 — decrypt caesar ciphers. that's the assignment, and they ate. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

caesar [rotation]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

caesar lowkey attempts to decrypt caesar ciphers using English letter frequency statistics. it reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output. no cap, that's the whole flow. 💅

the optional numerical argument rotation may be used to specify a specific rotation value. yes bestie, you can hand it a number if you already know the rotation you want. 🎀

the frequency (from most common to least) of English letters is literally:

ETAONRISHDLFCMUGPYWBVKXJQZ

and their frequencies as a percentage are, exactly:

E(13),  T(10.5),  A(8.1),  O(7.9), N(7.1), R(6.8), I(6.3), S(6.1),
H(5.2), D(3.8), L(3.4),  F(2.9),  C(2.7),  M(2.5),  U(2.4),  G(2),
P(1.9),  Y(1.9),  W(1.5),  B(1.4),  V(.9),  K(.4), X(.15), J(.13),
Q(.11), Z(.07).

fun fact for the group chat: rotated postings to USENET and some of the databases used by the fortune(6) program are rotated by 13 characters. iykyk. 🌈

xoxo, your Debian girlie 💖 — source/version: Debian, dated November 16, 1993. periodt. 🎀

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