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Letter counts for the Torah appear to be incorrect according to several sources #31

Open pankon opened 2 years ago

pankon commented 2 years ago

According to my counts: total: 305172 (not including items in [] in the raw .txt files)

א: 27069 ב: 16357 ג: 2111 ד: 7039 ה: 28085 ו: 30596 ז: 2199 ח: 7194 ט: 1806 י: 31607 ך: 3358 כ: 8614 ל: 21583 ם: 10630 מ: 14474 ן: 4260 נ: 9889 ס: 1836 ע: 11270 ף: 830 פ: 3976 ץ: 1035 צ: 2937 ק: 4700 ר: 18147 ש: 15605 ת: 17965

https://www.torahmusings.com/2012/10/letters-of-the-torah/ https://nifla-ot.co.il/2016/01/27/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%9A/

How were these files created?

pankon commented 2 years ago

Anyway, thank you guys for everything that you do. I will try to find a source that matches closely, and if I do I will update here