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    • CommentAuthorMike Jones
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2010
     
    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.
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    Huh? The highest numbers on each start with the same two digits? Not a big deal, I think.

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    Numerology!

    • CommentAuthorYemon Choi
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2010
     

    Spam, pure and simple.

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    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.

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    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.

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