Concept

Run — where it appears

A maximal stretch of one repeated symbol. It is what a transform’s run count counts, and in a parse it is the case where a phrase copies from a source overlapping itself — so the k-th character of a run sits at depth k, whatever else the collection contains.

Named by 2 essays across 2 fields — each of them below, with the objects they name alongside it.

The shape of a real history's depth

Four essays here are about capping how far an extraction follows a chain of copies, and every number in them came from a generated collection. Here is the depth histogram of a real version history, which is a bell, and of twelve unrelated essays, which is nearly the same bell.

text · Parse

The deepest text is punctuation

Eight source files reach depth 78 in a parse, on a collection with no version history in it at all. The positions between depth 20 and depth 72 are the same 48 characters at every level, and every one of them is a dash in a comment separator.

wrong · Parse

Named alongside it

The objects these essays reach for when they reach for this one.

Copy Corpus Depth Extraction Histogram Parse Phrase count Cap Control Generated collection Overlap Tail

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