Occasionally at work we "distribute" application users to one of two or three regions, based on the last digit of an employee id number. Theoretically, this should ensure an even, random distribution, since each digit should have roughly the same representation across the user population.
Since users come and go, sometimes our distributions get a little off, and we have to re-distribute the users; that's on my to-do list so today I was getting counts of the various "last digits". Out of 14,773 users, that means in a perfect world, each digit should have 1477.3 users associated with it.
The mean? 1475.2. The median value? 1479.5 The lowest count? 1434. The highest? 1514. That means that the counts fell within about 30 or 40 points of the average. How cool is that?!?!?!
Yeah, I'm a geek. This is the woman who picked her daughter's birthdate because of the cubes involved (9/27). Sigh.
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9 isn't a cube (of a whole number, anyway).
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