On August 3, 2008, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Ed Tomlinson <edt at aei.ca> wrote: > > No I have _not_ missed the point. If you map each key onto the rim of a > > circle and > > average resulting the x and y coords of all the keys you get an average in > > a circular > > keyspace. Try it. > > > > If fact radius of the averaged x, y will also be a measure of just how > > specialized your > > store is... (eg r = sqrt(average(x cords)^2+average(y cords)^2) > > That's a neat approach, did you just made it up or is it an > established technique?
Its an Ed solution. I did lots of plotting of strange functions when in school. It tends to give one a perspective on mapping and using different coordinate systems. Ed
