From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Dec  8 20:41:01 2005
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:41:01 -0500
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.051208185807.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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This makes it pretty clear which are the meaningful ones:

g <- structure(c(50700000, 75200, 573, 836, 1020, 349, 1850, 530,
352, 576, 589, 618, 349, 652), .Names = c("Gibraltar", "Gibralta",
"Gibraltr", "Gibralar", "Gibratar", "Gibrltar", "Gibaltar", "Giraltar",
"Gbraltar", "ibralter", "Gibralatar", "Gibrlatar", "Gibrltar",
"Gobraltar"))
plot(lm(log(g) ~ 1), which = 2)


On 12/8/05, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 08-Dec-05 Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Hothorn <torsten at hothorn.de>
> >>>>>>     on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:51:57 +0100 (CET) writes:
> >
> >     Torsten> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >     >> I've often wondered about that.
> >     Torsten> and the copy editor did too :-)
> >
> >     >> I've presumed that the names were
> >     >> deliberate, so have you checked the stated source?  It's not
> >     >> readily available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?
> >
> >     Torsten> our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The
> >     Torsten> Cambridge Encyclopaedia', so I can't check
> >     Torsten> either. Google has 74.900 hits for `Gibralta'
> >     Torsten> (more than one would expect for a typo, I think)
> >     Torsten> and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'.
> >
> >     Torsten> So maybe both spellings are in use.
> >
> > Well,  do you expect web authors to have a much lower rate of
> > typos than 1:770 ?
> > My limited experience on "google voting for spelling correction"
> > has rather lowered my expectation on webauthors' education in
> > orthography...
> >
> > Martin
>
> Hmmm ... Using my Google's "Results ... of about xxx":
>
>
>  Gibraltar 50,700,000
>  Gibralta      75,200
>  Gibraltr         573
>  Gibralar         836
>  Gibratar       1,020
>  Gibrltar         349
>  Gibaltar       1,850
>  Giraltar         530
>  Gbraltar         352
>  ibralter         576
>
> I'm not proposing to get exhaustive about this, but a few further
> experiments suggest that other specific typos are typically O(500)
> in frequency:
>
>  Gibralatar   589
>  Gibrlatar    618
>  Gibrltar     349
>  Gobraltar    652
>
>
> So -- if anyone can find a typo of "Gibraltar" which googles to
> more than 5000 hits (excepting "Gibralta")?
>
> Best wishes,
> Ted.
>
>
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[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
Gabor Grothendieck