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Gerry Myerson comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (10003)

Gerry Myerson — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:30:58 -0700

Speaking of numerology, I noticed, about 35 years ago, in the days when The Monster was all the rage, that the number of (known) Mersenne primes was equal to the number of (known) sporadic simple groups. Since then, the number of Mersennes has grown by about 50 percent, but the number of sporadics has not kept pace.

Michael Lugo comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9980)

Michael Lugo — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:20:55 -0700

A bit more seriously, though, John Cook suggested once that StackOverflow reputation scores follow a power law: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/02/stackoverflow-reputation-statistics/ -- it would be interesting to know if MathOverflow reputation scores work the same way. (I see no reason why they wouldn't, but if the distributions did look very different that might say something about the difference between the two communities.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9978)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:42:19 -0700

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Yemon Choi comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9977)

Yemon Choi — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:50:23 -0700

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Harry Gindi comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9968)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:11:36 -0700

Numerology!

Scott Morrison comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9964)

Scott Morrison — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:26:32 -0700

Huh? The highest numbers on each start with the same two digits? Not a big deal, I think.

Mike Jones comments on "Correlation of MO rep/10 with chess scores" (9963)

Mike Jones — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:10:54 -0700

MO rep divided by 10 resembles chess ratings, at least at the high end.

For example, the highest MO rep is that of Joel David Hamkins: 28.8, and the highest chess (i.e., FIDE) rating is that of Garry Kasparov: 2849.

It would be interesting if the two distributions MO rep over 10 and FIDE ratings showed strong similarity. I don’t have the time to follow this up, but maybe someone else does.