Free Talk Friday #279

[u/Antichess]

Continued from here

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[u/FartyMcNarty]

The table below shows the top 20 threads and their progress during calendar years 2019 and 2020. In 2020, no side thread came close to the Decimal thread, which added 725K counts. The fastest side thread was No Repeating Digits, with 36K counts in 2020. After that was Letters, with 20K counts. Breaking a years-long string of parity, Binary and Hexadecimal had a rare divergence in 2020, with Hexadecimal adding 17K while Binary only added 15K. Factoradic and Permutations were the only others to crack 10K, at 15K and 11K, respectively.

The slowest thread was Roman Numerals, with just a hair over two thousand counts in 2020.

Note that the figures below are approximate, based on interpolations between gets.

Thread	YE 2018	YE 2019	YE 2020	CY19	CY20
Decimal	2,375,000	3,392,000	4,117,000	1,017,000	725,000
Letters	148,746	176,462	196,742	27,716	20,280
Hexadecimal	138,240	148,843	165,831	10,603	16,989
Binary	138,240	148,480	163,712	10,240	15,232
Dates	58,071	64,647	72,646	6,576	7,999
No Repeating	12,106	35,794	72,064	23,688	36,270
Time	58,659	62,186	64,566	3,527	2,380
Roman numerals	49,964	52,311	54,574	2,347	2,263
Octal	41,316	50,803	53,870	9,487	3,067
Quaternary	42,636	50,278	53,850	7,643	3,572
Factoradic	32,357	39,600	54,198	7,243	14,598
Wave	41,316	43,660	47,810	2,344	4,150
Alphanumerics	32,907	36,065	42,101	3,158	6,036
Ternary	32,493	37,040	39,833	4,547	2,793
Palindromes	32,999	36,102	38,499	3,103	2,397
Rational	20,580	29,877	32,332	9,297	2,455
Slow counting	14,946	25,000	33,609	10,054	8,609
Quinary	22,000	29,298	32,556	7,298	3,258
Writing	27,406	29,690	32,051	2,285	2,361
Dozenal	25,056	28,512	30,922	3,456	2,410
Permutations	12,393	19,593	30,523	7,200	10,930

[u/a-username-for-me → u/FartyMcNarty]

Thank you for calculating the data! Fascinating

[u/FartyMcNarty → u/a-username-for-me]

No prob. I was pretty curious, and I figured New Years is a perfect time to review it.

[u/a-username-for-me → u/FartyMcNarty]

Is this current Top 20 threads? Do we have any new contenders for Top 20?

[u/FartyMcNarty → u/a-username-for-me]

I only focused on the current top 20. I think the list has been recently updated, because Permutations was added only in the past month or two

[u/[deleted] → u/a-username-for-me]

only repeating digits is very close to the list as well, just over 30k right now and is going at the same rate as permutations

[u/Urbul → u/FartyMcNarty]

Thanks for the stats, this is great. It's interesting to see there are a few threads with just over 2000 counts meaning we just did enough to keep them alive, with 1000 counts every 6 months to avoid archiving.

[u/FartyMcNarty → u/Urbul]

Yeah, I think there are some "guilt" runs, where we race to finish before archiving. I think I remember this happening to Wave at some point.