Whenever someone changes the subject of a thread (even something seemingly as innocuous as changing case of letters), it can throw off email or newsreader software threading. Please leave the subject line as is. Thanks.
Don Imbriale >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of john gilmore >Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:45 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: DASD skew > >DASD skew is often modeled as an instance of what is also called Zipf's law, >a Pareto distribution, or a power law. The idea if that the relative >frequencies >of the elements of some set of mutually exclusive events vary inversely as a >function of their ranks, e.g., > >P(n) = 1/n^a > >where a is greater than but close to 1. > >Google Zipf's law or Pareto distribution for (much) more information. ( >Zipf, a >Harvard linguist, was originally interested in word frequencies in >English-language >text, where instances of 'of' or 'the' are of course much more frequent than >instances of 'glabrous' or 'tergiversate'. ) > >John Gilmore >Ashland, MA 01721 >USA > *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
