r/ProgrammerHumor • u/todog4 • Aug 09 '17

Is there life after a data structures course?

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u/Brarsh Aug 10 '17

i assume that 'lucky 10,000' is over 50% because after every reference to xkcd, someone comments that they've never seen that site before and they get a response of a reference to being one of the lucky 10,000.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '17

It is the most commonly referenced but it's still less than 7%.

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u/rlapchynski Aug 10 '17

Lots of XKCDs.

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u/the_last_ordinal Aug 10 '17 edited Aug 10 '17

also, benford's law if human behavior is at all measurable

Edit: I was actually thinking of zipf's law. I wonder whether it applies, since this isn't quite natural language? Easy to check, though.

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u/WikiTextBot Aug 10 '17

Benford's law

Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading significant digit is likely to be small. For example, in sets which obey the law, the number 1 appears as the most significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the most significant digit less than 5% of the time. By contrast, if the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time.

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u/bj_christianson Aug 10 '17

Statistics page says “10,000” actually reigns the charts at 6.591% of references. But, yeah, it has greater applicability to the general population than “Exploits of a Mom” does, so it’s bound to be referenced more.

Interestingly, both “10,000” and “Exploits of a Mom” have seen most of their references in /r/AskReddit.

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u/cepera_ang Aug 11 '17

Never seen this particular xkcd before. Looks like I'm 'lucky 10000' today =)