Errrrr

I haven't really updated my blog lately (again). I had a Crown camp over the weekend, and I was crazy busy last week. I'll probably pick up my planned series on Time Control tomorrow or so, but for now, I'll share a neat little thing I was doing today. I googled "er", "err", "errr", and so on, took down the number of results, and plotted them in Mathematica. Here's the result, with number of "r"s on the x axis and number of results on the y axis (it's actually the logarithm of the result, to keep them at a manageable size).

I've only gotten up to 60, but it's actually non-zero all the way up to 128 "r"s, at which point Google tells you the search string is too long. It starts off with a gorgeous example of exponential decay (though since it's log data, it's not really exponential decay. Double exponential decay, maybe?), but then goes into a more random jittering pattern. The log data goes down in a pretty straight line, which means the original data goes down roughly exponentially. Of course, that doesn't take into account that weird spike at around 50. Who knows what's up with that?