From be3bc40e774b898c277dd97648f333190adc0fd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 04:36:07 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** svn path=/trunk/; revision=2670 --- history.html | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'history.html') diff --git a/history.html b/history.html index 0d7d4ac7..0567305a 100644 --- a/history.html +++ b/history.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Trends in the fetchmail project's growth

@@ -77,8 +77,12 @@ The growth trend in code size looks sublinear, perhaps logarithmic. The linear growth trend in population is particularly interesting; a priori we might expect geometric or logistic growth, given that the -project spreads by word of mouth. I have not yet been able to -plausibly imagine a growth model that would produce these numbers.

+project spreads by word of mouth.

+ +It has been suggested that the linear growth rate is the result of a +situation in which both number of projects and the population of +eligible programmers are rising on trend curves of the same (probably +exponential) rate.

There are some other pages doing similar things:

@@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ vocabulary of the Linux kernel.

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