TWCP OTD (The Who Cares Puzzle Of The Day) - 24th of January, 2017

Duncan Edwards Jones

There's a touch of Benfield's Benford's Law about this...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Much better - it is like the second version of some code... more robust and trustworthy... :thumbsup:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Benford's law is more about observation of probability in naturally occurring number lists and it is much more a phenomenon... I tried to keep it more terrestrial...

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realJSOP

Real programmers start counting with 0, and logically speaking, a list of 1000 numbers would only go to 999. Using my logic: Most instances = 1 through 9 (all tied) Least instances = 0 If you did it wrong (as stated by the original message), 1 would be first (by just one instance), and 0 would still be the least used. Actual results: 1-1000 0 = 300 1 = 300 2 = 300 3 = 300 4 = 300 5 = 300 6 = 300 7 = 300 8 = 300 9 = 189 0-999 0 = 190 1 = 300 2 = 300 3 = 300 4 = 300 5 = 300 6 = 300 7 = 300 8 = 300 9 = 297

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Real programmers start counting with 0

And outlaw programmers keep their logic as secret... :-D

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OriginalGriff

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

which is the most frequent digit in the list of numbers form 1 to 1000?

Assuming that those are spelling errors:

2 it the least frequent, with only one instance.
0 is the most frequent, with three instances.
Poor old 1 has only two instances in the collection {1, 2, 1000}

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realJSOP

There are no secrets with regards to being an outlaw. That would put the rest of society in danger, and not even I'm that insensitive...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Remember! I'm not only writing bad English, but also reading that way...

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Mark_Wallace

That's taking digits into account, though, but, numerically, eleven isn't one twice, for example; it's eleven (which becomes obvious with any base other than 10). Either zero or one would have to be the absolute top, in real-world usage: 0. Unlike any other number, any amount of zeroes = zero, so finance, decimal fractions, etc, will rack up huge amounts of the non-existent buggers. 1. Everything (that grokels use) starts from 1, so it is therefore highly used because it's always there, even if [2 ... 99] aren't. And, language-wise, expressions like "Oh, just one more thing..." are used a gajillion times more often than "Oh, just [2 ... 99] more things...". Someone must have done a study on this! It's way more interesting and useful than a huge amount of "research" I hear about. (i.e. it's a tiny bit useful and interesting)

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Mark_Wallace

Damn! I glanced at your OP too quickly, obviously, and completely misread it. Why do pressures of work always have to get in the way of really useful stuff, like talking bollocks in the Lounge!?!

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Mike Hankey

13 being the less frequent because I don;t like it and my girlfriend says it makes her butt look big.

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TonyManso

Being as this is the "Who Cares Puzzle Of The Day", wouldn't the best answer be... "WHO CARES?" Just saying. :doh:

Richard Deeming

Sod it - my brain is too knackered to work this out. Time to cheat! :D

Enumerable.Range(1, 1000)
.SelectMany(i => i.ToString())
.GroupBy(d => d, (Digit, items) => new { Digit, Count = items.Count() })
.Dump();

Digit | Count

1 | 301
2 | 300
3 | 300
4 | 300
5 | 300
6 | 300
7 | 300
8 | 300
9 | 300
0 | 192

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

0 is the least used 1 is the most used

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

0

#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

imzhangqin

000 001 ... 009 010 011 ... 019 ... 990 001 ... 999 so, from 000 ~ 999, all digit are equal. But, remove leading '0', '0' is least frequent. Adding 1000, so, 1 is most frequent.

imzhangqin

000 001 ... 009 010 011 ... 019 ... 990 001 ... 999 so, from 000 ~ 999, all digit are equal. But, remove leading '0', '0' is least frequent. Adding 1000, so, 1 is most frequent.

PIEBALDconsult

If not that, then what?

PIEBALDconsult

1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000

0 == 8 1 == 13