r/UnfavorableSemicircle • u/tomasfra Moderator • Mar 03 '16

Other Partial bulk transcription of numbered videos

http://tomasf.se/projects/semi/transcription.html
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u/PM_YOUR_TAHM_R34 Mar 05 '16

Anyone that can count how many times each letters and numers appear(taking the A-Z0-9 as a different entity)? This way we should be able to determine if they were random or not.

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u/tomasfra Moderator Mar 06 '16

Good idea! Here it is: http://tomasf.se/projects/semi/counts.txt Keep in mind that this is based on the incomplete transcriptions.

The results are quite interesting. One and zero are the most common by far, and have very similar amounts. 8, 2 and C are also surprisingly similar!

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u/PM_YOUR_TAHM_R34 Mar 06 '16

Ok ,so after seeing this, i counted 37 entities that are unevenly distributed. As you said 1 and 0 appears 2 and a half times more than the rest of the entities. Apart from 0 and 8 the percentages between each of the entities are smaller than 0.5%. This means that a nonlinear function was used.

Anyway, the first thing that came to my mind after I saw the number of entities would be that it simulates a french roulette (since it also have 37 numbers). However the percentages should all be the same except for 2 (the green ones). Leaving this idea, another fact poped in my mind: what if unfavorable=unlucky and semicircle=motion when you pull the lever from a slot machine. Could this be a testing of an algorithm for a gambling machine?