On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:21:51AM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > Josh Lauricha <laurichj@bioinfo.ucr.edu> writes: > > On Fri 07/08/05 21:06, Luis Matos wrote: > >> >For sarge: > >> >Mean: 138189... Its those damned 200504201-style numbers. > Number of packages with a version number greater than or equal to 1000 > (likely to be derived from a date?): Better make that 10000, otherwise we unfairly exclude anthy: testing (utils): A Japanese input method (backend, dictionary and utility) 6300d-2: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc (And 6700 has gone into unstable, and is awaiting autobuilders, I expect) > 90% quantile version number: > > grep-aptavail -P '' -s Version \ > | sed 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]\+:\)\?\([0-9]\+\(\.[0-9]\+\)\?\).*$/\2/' \ > | sort -n \ > | head -$(expr 9 \* $(grep-aptavail -P '' -s Version | wc -l) / 10 + 1) \ > | tail -1 > 4.2 This is the only output that looks like a reasonable value. The question is, has it been growing monotonically across releases, and will it continue to do so? ^_^ (The advantage of the tex-like approaching-pi version is that people will stop using it, and start referring to things by name, like they should. ^_^) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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