[Blog Post] The 490, and other starting character patterns

[RobGea]

Good spot! For me it is not a coincidence. Notice that it happens mostly at neighbour pages.

I dunno, man, it's tricky.

This would make a good project for those University of Adelaide guys.

If we take all the first letters of all the lines and join them together into one long string, then,
According to this post at math.stackexchange[1], that i do not really understand but it seems that a repeated 8 character string is unlikely in a string of  ~5383 characters.

Doing some empirical testing on a random string of 5383 chars consisting of 19 letters, needed 2-3 thousand runs to be fairly certain to find a length 8 string, so that roughly matches up.

I cannot be sure, but i get the feeling that the pattern of occurrences seems about right but the counts seem too high.
In the random tests, lengths of 4,5 were common, then a big drop for 6s, and another big drop for 7s.
The vms seems to shows the same pattern but there is just more of them, though that is kind of expected because of the positional rigidity of the characters.

If one did a study, then all that kind of stuff would have to be taken into account and compensated(?) for,  but it would be interesting to see it done.

[1] "Probability of text in a string and probability that the text is random if I keep seeing the text."
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Edit: There is a super long string of 'o's on f70r1, i chose to ignore it.