Debern: a*

21.10.2008

a*

What happens if you plot the number of hits in google for all strings with an increasing number of 'a's?

Please also consider, that after 128 'a's lazy google doesn't hold any results anymore.

5 Kommentare:

Unknown hat gesagt…: There are some crazy people in this world. *croak*; 22. Oktober 2008 um 08:34
Toon Verwaest hat gesagt…: Very strange graph. If I look at the string "" (which is matched by a*) then google gives me no results. So the graph should start at 0,0 right?; 22. Oktober 2008 um 10:03
Toon Verwaest hat gesagt…: http://igwe.vub.ac.be/~tverwaes/a-z-graph.png

Here you can see all letters.
Winners are:

www -> for obvious reasons
30*"x" -> wth?
(50|100)*[a-z] -> google does strange things with its data...; 22. Oktober 2008 um 15:32
debern hat gesagt…: Of course I didn't plot the results without hits.

Btw., it's on a logarithmic scale, if someone didn't found out... :); 23. Oktober 2008 um 19:06
Toon Verwaest hat gesagt…: didn't -find- out; 26. Oktober 2008 um 14:23

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