Handwriters and crossword solvers!! How do you write a capital letter E ?
Vertical line first, then three horizontal lines, obviously!
horizontal lines first and then a vertical to connect them, of course!
like a square bracket [ with an extra horizontal line in the middle, duh!
like a capital C with a line in the middle, how else!
some other way (explain??)
Voting ended onMar 1, 2023
I have polls and a burning desire for answers....
AKA I've been doing a big book of crossword puzzles and I wanna see if anyone does their E's the same way as me.
Bonus/Extra credit question !!!
If you do,--or have ever done--crossword puzzles, (in a language/alphabet that has upper and lower cases) do you fill in the answers using capital or lowercase letters?
Excuse you, tumblr, please bring back the ability to read notes and go back to the same place in my dash as before instead of sending me all the way back to the beginning.
Saw (and reblogged) a Benfords Law post going around asking people to vote the first digit of the current number of votes, which is cool! There's something deterministic about it, though (explanation below cut).
So let's do a more chaotic (less predictable) version and see if it still works:
Please vote the first digit of the number of notes on the post directly above this one on your dash.
So if the previous post has 213 notes, vote 2. If there is no previous post or it has no notes, use the post below. If that also has no notes or would take too much scrolling, vote None.
Benford's Law (less deterministic version: please vote for the first digit of the number of notes on the post ABOVE this one on your dash)
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None
Voting ended onFeb 14, 2023
Then please reblog so more people can see this and we can try to get a better distribution!
Explanation:
For the version where you vote the first digit of the number of votes on the current poll, it's deterministic (up to human/computer error) because:
Based on the total number of votes at the end, say N, you can predict (without Benford's Law) how many votes each digit should have, assuming everyone votes correctly, because you know how many numbers less than N have each digit as their first digit.
For example, when I voted and reblogged there were roughly 28000 votes, and the numbers for digits 3-9 were the same, which could have been predicted from the fact that the number of numbers <28000 that start with a 3 is the same as the number of them that start with a 4, etc: they are all 1,111:
For 3 it's 1000 (for numbers 3000-3999) + 100 (for numbers 300-399) + 10 (for numbers 30-39) + 1 (for the number 3), so 1111.
Same for those that start with 4: 1000 (for numbers 4000-4999) + 100 (for numbers 400-499) + 10 (for numbers 40-49) + 1 (for the number 3), so 1111.
The number for 1 would be the same 1,111 as above except with an extra 10,000 for numbers 10,000-20,000, so total 11,111.
And for 2 would be 81,111, for the same 1111 as before but plus 80,000 for 20,000-28,000 (where 28,000 is the total number of votes).
There would be some error due to people voting incorrectly, or timing issues (someone voting before seeing the page update from the previous person's vote), but the distribution would be mostly predictable.
(Though this is not exactly the right distribution, because in the poll they all basically had 6% and the calculation says it should be 4%; I wonder if a nontrivial number of people are accidentally clicking last digit instead?)
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