Re: VMs: Faces at the roots

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

At 08:02 27/04/2005 -0400, Wayne Durden wrote:
> Just to be clear, it isn't that there are 52 unique labels, there are far 
> more than that.  I have 1031 unique labels and that's after discarding the 
> first 5 or 7 from stolfi's list that have asterisks for weirdo 
> untranscribed characters.  There just happened to be 52 labels that were 
> used as labels in more than one section of the manuscript.

So, if labels appear no more than twice, the chance of a label appearing 
elsewhere as a label would be (52*2)/1031 = 10%. How does this compare with 
the chance of any word in the main text appearing elsewhere in the main text?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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