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Subject: Re: [stats]Frequent Numbers
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On 9/28/24 14:16, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Which parts of the standard(s) are quoted often in this newsgroup?
>
> Here are some candidates (numbers with other meanings might have
> sneaked in!) I found with their frequency:
>
> number frequency
>
> 9.10 617

There is no section 9 in the ISO C standard.

> 2.6.39.3 615

Section 2 has no sub-sections, just paragraphs.

> 1.0 491

Section 1 also has no sub-sections, and (oddly for a language that uses
0-based indexing :-) sub-sections are never numbered 0.

> 6.2.5 389

That's the section for types - that's plausibly a common topic of
discussion.

Several of the following section numbers listed below fall afoul of the
same issues as the first three, but I'll stop here.

> 6.3.2.3 351
> 1.6 349
> 5.1.2.3 347
> 6.3.2.1 292
> 1.48.0 265
> 6.2.6.2 257
> 6.5p7 232
> 6.5.2.2 228
> 6.2.6.1 220
> 5.1.2.2.1 198
> 6.5.6 196
> 3.4.5 185
> 6.7.8 181
> 4.7.4 175
> 3.2.3 158
> 7.1.4 157
> 5.2.4.1 155
> 6.7.2.1 155
> 2.0 153
> 7.1.3 153
> 4.1.2 153
> 6.5.3.2 144
> 3.4.3 141
> 2.7 136
> 6.5.2.3 127
> 5.2.4.2.2 124
> 6.3.1.1 121
> 6.2.4 120
> 6.5.16.1 116
> 6.7.3 115
> 6.5.3.4 114
> 3.2.2 113
> 5.2.1 113
> 5.1.0 113
> 4.1.1 112
> 4.3.3 111
> 6.5.7 110
> 7.20.3 108
> 3.4.4 107
> 5.4.6 107
> 6.3.2.3p7 105
> 6.2.1 102
> 5.1.1.2 102
> 6.2.6 101
> 6.3.1.8 101
> 3.4.6 101
> 3.0 100
>
>