[ExI] aaahnold's hidden message

[spike]

The Taxifornia governator has been accused of sending an obscene message to
his political opponents in the form of a seven letters which start each line
of his memo.  He is claiming a coincidence, but the local news calculated it
at 8 billion to 1, by taking 26^7.
 
I noticed that the C is a scrabble three point letter, the F and the Y are
all worth four points and the K is a five pointer.  So I grabbed a huge hunk
of text, wrote a script to calculate letter frequencies starting a sentence
and came out with about 1 in 600 billion that this was a coincidence, and
this doesn't even take into account the space being in the right place: 
 
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/10/arnold_to_sf_fuck_you.html
 
spike
 
 
 
 
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