Run count — where it appears
Named by 4 essays across 2 fields — each of them below, with the objects they name alongside it.
A corpus that was not generated
Every collection in five strands has been copies of a generated text with a fraction of its characters replaced — three numbers, one dial. Here is one that was not — twelve essays, eight source modules, ten revisions of one file — measured beside the model of it.
A million characters of the same thing
Every measurement this collection has published about real text was taken on twenty-four thousand characters, because the phrase count was quadratic. It is linear now, so here is the same corpus at forty times the size — and what forty times does to its own numbers.
The half of a fall that is the logarithm
Phrases per character on a real collection of essays fall by a factor of 2.34 as it grows. A shuffle of the same characters falls by 1.70. Nearly three quarters of the movement is arithmetic, and no definition of the measure says so.
The dial that has no setting
The generator has one parameter. The real version history's run count asks it for 2.3% and its phrase count asks for 3.2% — and the reason is not that the dial is badly calibrated. Real edits average 7.3 characters a block and generated ones average 1.04.
Named alongside it
The objects these essays reach for when they reach for this one.
ControlCorpusPhrase countRepetitionAlphabetEntropyDocument collectionGenerated collectionIndex sizeLogarithmMeasurementScale