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Haskell: Frequency count for randomly generated letters
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import Control.Monad | |
import System.Random | |
import Data.List | |
import Data.Ord | |
-- Letters of the alphabet | |
alpha = ['a'..'z'] | |
-- Get a random letter | |
rLetter = randomRIO (0,25) >>= return . (!!) alpha | |
-- Frequency count: | |
-- Sort letters in order, group together identical letters, then return a tuple containing (letter, frequency) | |
freq = map (\l -> (head l, length l)) . group . sort | |
-- Generate 10,000 random letters, sorted by most frequent | |
main :: IO [(Char, Int)] | |
main = return . reverse . (sortBy (comparing snd)) . freq =<< replicateM 10000 rLetter | |
{- | |
OUTPUT: | |
λ main | |
[('c',424),('h',412),('o',408),('m',406),('w',402),('y',400),('p',398),('j',393),('x',392),('s',390),('l',389),('z',388),('u',386),('k',386),('i',386),('e',384),('d',378),('v',376),('a',374),('q',367),('b',366),('f',365),('n',363),('g',359),('t',354),('r',354)] | |
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