From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-30 12:21:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!nnxp1.twtelecom.net!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!prodigy.com!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: data on cla messages, was Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <0BPb9.51560$kp.705108@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1030735292 12.234.13.56 (Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:21:32 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:21:32 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:21:32 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28606 Date: 2002-08-30T19:21:32+00:00 List-Id: > > Let's suppose that everyone adds 10 lines and quotes everything before > Let's suppose that everyone adds 10% to what they are quoting. Looking at the last 228 messages on CLA, containing 7350 total body (not header) lines, 2118 of which are quote lines, I find the length of a body decreased on average by 1.8 lines from the message it referenced, with standard deviation 23.4, or, taking ratios, bodies decrease to .995, standard deviation 2.2 For two messages both containing quoted lines, the number of quoted lines increased by 1.4, s.d. 12.1, or to 119%, s.d. 3.5 So the ratios have substantially less variance than the deltas, indicating an exponential fits the data much better than a linear model.