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Letter Highlighting in Text

Move the slider to highlight different letters in this passage from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Gold Bug." Note that the sequence of letters that Poe gives is incorrect, as proven by modern textual analysis. The most common letter in English prose after e is actually t, followed by a, etc..

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"Letter Highlighting in Text" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
 http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LetterHighlightingInText/
Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr
Original version by: Stephen Wolfram
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