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Re: The magical number seven

From Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: The magical number seven
Date 2014-10-21 11:44 +0200
Organization 1&1 Internet AG
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Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> There are many shorter words.  I get an average of 8.7.
> 
> Histogram:
> 
>  1 ******************
>  2 *****************************
>  3 *********************
>  4 ********************
>  5 ************
>  6 ****************
>  7 ***********
>  8 **********
>  9 *****
> 10 *******
> 11 ***
> 12 ***
> 13 **
> 14 *
> 15 *****
> 16 **
> 17 **
> 18 *
> 19 **
> 20 **
> 21 **
> 22 *
> 23 *
> 24 **
> 25 *
> 27 *
> 29 *
> 30 *
> 32 *
> 34 *
> 38 *
> 43 **
> 47 *
> 60 **
> 67 *

The histogram is much more useful here: It's a long tail statistics. 
Apparently, the pressure is towards very small words, and ~80% of the words 
are "well factored".  20% aren't, and it looks like they need half of the 
source code space.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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