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Subject:CHAT: Signal-to-noise on techwr-l From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:53:24 +0800
Robert Plamondon said:
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T |
R | /
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V | /
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A | /
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NUMBER OF POSTINGS
This is an excellent first approximation, but the full function should
show the (inverse) relationship between the amount of sense in the
posting, and the length of the sig plus the amount of included material.
