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: 2002-08-31 09:21:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!usc.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? References: <5ee5b646.0208310421.1743a7cb@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <_16c9.144872$aA.31015@sccrnsc02> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1030810874 12.234.13.56 (Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:21:14 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:21:14 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:21:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28633 Date: 2002-08-31T16:21:14+00:00 List-Id: > If you make the absurd assumption that the size of replies > asymptotically increases by 10%, then the total amount of Apparently you didn't read my post with the subject changed to "data on cla messages, was Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?" Asymptotically the size of messages decreases to zero when a thread dies. In the short term, however, quote growth in CLA is 14.8% (based on 261 messages) from one message with quotes over its referent with quotes. Total body length shrinks to 97.9% on successive messages. The exponential fits the data quite a bit better than a linear model. There's a story that an early professor of aeronautical engineering proved that bumblebees can't fly. His calculations were probably correct, so it must have been his model that was wrong. > Sometimes you can say what you are saying briefly, sometimes it takes > longer. Some of my most useful posts are in the form of lengthy tutorials. I'm sure that the value of certain people's posts is directly proportional to their size. That's usually not the case, however.