Re: Installed libbusiness-onlinepayment-bankofamerica-perl 1.00-1 (all source)
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:32:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> For what it's worth, a histrogram of package name lengths. Just for kicks,
> I calculated[1] it for unstable and also for potato, and have superimposed
> the plots:
>
> num pot uns
> 2 39 52 ===*
> 3 183 308 ===============**********
> 4 272 438 ======================**************
> 5 310 534 =========================*******************
> 6 355 622 =============================**********************
> 7 420 736 ===================================**************************
> 8 371 704 ==============================****************************
> 9 303 598 =========================************************
> 10 343 662 ============================***************************
> 11 293 669 ========================*******************************
> 12 207 502 =================************************
> 13 174 411 ==============********************
> 14 175 360 ==============****************
> 15 118 283 =========**************
> 16 77 210 ======***********
> 17 74 203 ======**********
> 18 56 173 ====**********
> 19 53 137 ====*******
> 20 39 92 ===**** Key:
> 21 33 105 ==****** * packages in unstable
> 22 15 53 =*** = packages in potato (and unstable)
> 23 13 67 =****
> 24 16 45 =**
> 25 8 34 **
> 26 10 32 **
> 27 8 19 *
> 28 6 12 *
> 29 7 11
> 30 5 8
> 31 3 3
> 32 7 2
> 33 3 0
> 34 3 2
> ...
> 42 0 1
>
> I wish this looked more like a bell curve.
In what way? A bell curve is a distribution for items that go to plus or
minus infinity; for us to have something that looked more a like a bell
curve, we'd need a much higher average name length, so the fact there
are no zero or less length names wouldn't skew it too badly. From my
limited probability knowledge, this looks about like a Poisson curve,
which is what I'd expect. (A Poisson curve is a bell curve for things
that cut off at zero, basically.)
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