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

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