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+.\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)caesar.6 5.3 (Berkeley) 11/11/90
+.\"
+.TH CAESAR 6 "November 11, 1990"
+.UC 7
+.SH NAME
+caesar \- decrypt caesar cyphers
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B caesar
+[
+.B rotation
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I caesar
+utility attempts to decrypt caesar cyphers using English letter frequency
+statistics.
+.I Caesar
+reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.
+.PP
+The optional numerical argument
+.I rotation
+may be used to specify a specific rotation value.
+.PP
+The frequency (from most common to least) of English letters is as follows:
+.sp
+.RS
+ETAONRISHDLFCMUGPYWBVKXJQZ
+.RE
+.PP
+Their frequencies as a percentage are as follows:
+.sp
+.RS
+E(13), T(10.5), A(8.1), O(7.9), N(7.1), R(6.8), I(6.3), S(6.1), H(5.2),
+D(3.8), L(3.4), F(2.9), C(2.7), M(2.5), U(2.4), G(2), P(1.9), Y(1.9),
+W(1.5), B(1.4), V(.9), K(.4), X(.15), J(.13), Q(.11), Z(.07).
+.RE
+.PP
+Rotated postings to USENET and some of the databases used by the
+.IR fortune (6)
+program are rotated by 13 characters.