I'd like to have a look. Does your program suggest that *Tom Sawyer* and *Hucklebbery Finn* were written by different men? That would be intriguing, and in some ways it would make sense. The Samuel Clemens of the mid-1870s had changed considerably by the mid-1880s. He'd spent a lot of time being annoyed and possibly influenced by Cable, among other things -- not to mention his abolitionist in-laws. And of course, *Tom Sawyer* was written by Mr. Mark Twain, and *Huckleberry Finn* was written by Huckleberry Finn. In any case I'd love to see your PDF. Does it come with an executive summary? *_________________________________* *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371* On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:02 PM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Twainians and Twainiacs, lend me your peepers! > I have written a computer program which compares two documents to > determine the likelihood of them having the same author. Among many other > pairs of writings (MLK, Malcolm X, Ted Kaczynski, etc.), I compared "The > Adventures of Tom Sawyer" with "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." > The PDF report that the program generates gives statistics about average > length of sentences and words in both books it is analyzing, frequency of > usage of various symbols (from commas to @), phrases (of ten letters or > more) that both documents have in common ("Tom" and "Huck" have 4900 such > phrases in common!), and uncommon* words used in both books, with counts > and percentages. > I would be happy to email anybody here that is interested the PDF report > that my app generated. Lector emptor: it is 385 pages long. > * In this case, the definition of "uncommmon" is any word other than the > 3,000 most-used English words. > > - B. Clay Shannon >