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pyninja
on May 26, 2011
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About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinb...
What's not clear about it? They die at a steady rate of 25% per 7 years.
bmm6o
on May 26, 2011
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As reemrevnivek explains, the answer to "25% of what?" is the issue here. An exponential decay can be described with the same words.
erikpukinskis
on May 27, 2011
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There's a freaking graph. Are we really being this pedantic that we can't understand what he's saying?
bmm6o
on June 1, 2011
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I discovered when I got home that the graph was blocked by my office's web filter. Definitely makes more sense with it there. Thanks for your understanding!
idlewords
on May 27, 2011
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You must be new here!
pyninja
on May 27, 2011
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Sorry, I didn't think of the second interpretation.
bahadden
on May 26, 2011
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So they have a quarter-life of 7 years?
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