Re: 90/10 rule... source?

"Mike Kent" <mkent@acm.org>
16 Jan 2004 22:30:11 -0500

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From: "Mike Kent" <mkent@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Jan 2004 22:30:11 -0500
Organization: Entropy Mongers plc.
References: 04-01-038 04-01-055
Keywords: optimize, practice
Posted-Date: 16 Jan 2004 22:30:11 EST

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:24:06 -0500, Nick Maclaren wrote:


> Jens Troeger <jens.troeger@light-speed.de> wrote:
...
> Knuth may well have been the first to publish, but it was a well-known
> principle decades before that. Probably millennia. I was certainly
> using it in the 1960s, and I am a mere newcomer. It may have been big
> news to SOME people, but it definitely wasn't this side of the pond.


Google for "Vilfredo Pareto". Around the turn of the century, he
pointed out that the rich have most of the money -- quantitatively a
rough 80/20 rule. (I'm no statistician, but this clearly must be true
for anything that you can't have less than 0 of, and that has
substantial variance ... wealth, lifetime home runs, instruction
execution counts ... )

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