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I'm wondering if you need to worry about two of your samples overlapping, and thus skewing the results. Just a thought -- I don't have code to offer, but it should be fairly trivial. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^2: Frequency Analysis Of A Subset Of A File
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 24, 2013 at 19:57 UTC
    talexb,
    I think that would only happen if you were randomly selecting your seek positions and not ensuring they were evenly distributed.

    Cheers - L~R