> has no human context whatsoever, so of course it's a useless homework
> problem.  Why would someone want to take a useless histogram of a bunch of
> letters?

Erm me!
Communications analysts and cryptographers do that all the time! :-)

The problem is fine,  it's the context that would give it a purpose that is 
missing.
If the problem were introduced with a little background rationale it might 
seem more
relevant.

Alan G. 

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