I enjoyed this cave name thing. Fascinating list, and important. The two sets of numbers got me to thinkin and BOOM an idea was borned to evaluate the potency of these obviously culturally significant place names. Making an arduous thought process short, sorbable for you lay folk, I did deevide the number of states in which a certain cave name has been noted, acrost the number of occurrences of the same, yielding sort of a potency index. And what name gets the most geographic bang for it's buck? Skull Cave at a factor of 0.731. The units would be states per cave, but I prefer to think of the stistic as unitless, and the meaning understood. And the least potent? Bat Cave at 0.222. A listing follows. The only thing I could not figure was a clever moniker for me 'musin metric. I leave that to your fertile minds...
And I want to say right here and now that it is not my intent to underappreciate the potency of Alan's Arm Pit. Bigg Russ, mathahmatician Llano, TX rank name occurrences states ? 1 Bat 90 20 0.222 2 Indian 87 29 0.333 3 Spring 49 19 0.388 4 Cave Spring 43 14 0.326 5 Saltpeter 42 11 0.262 6 Spider 41 23 0.561 7 Ice 38 21 0.553 8 Bear 35 18 0.514 9 Cricket 33 17 0.515 10 Crystal 33 23 0.697 11 Buzzard 31 10 0.323 12 Rattlesnake 30 13 0.433 13 Wildcat 30 12 0.400 14 Quarry 28 15 0.536 15 Blowing 28 12 0.429 16 Dry 26 12 0.462 17 Skull 26 19 0.731 18 Wind 25 16 0.640 19 Hidden 24 14 0.583 20 Lost 23 14 0.609 -----Original Message----- From: Allan Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave Names Actually, there is a pit in the PEP area named after my arm pit. The tape wasn't quite long enough to reach the bottom of the pit so I lined up the survey station with my arm pit and held the tape out at arms length. After the shot, I had to measure from the end of the tape reel to my arm pit and add that to the distance. As a result, the cave was named for my arm pit. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gill Subject: [Texascavers] Cave Names > How 'bout: [Anybody's] Arm Pit? -- Russ K. Johnson 1207 Ford Llano, TX --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
