#!/usr/bin/env ruby =begin Determines the distribution of the first digit. This script analyze the constants used across all LODA programs. Ignoring oeis program_ids. Ignoring the digit 0. Ignoring comments. Ignoring target registers. Ignoring source registers. The minus sign is ignored if it's a negative constant. Only the first digit is considered. The remaning digits are ignored. Benford's Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsDjbhbADY Output from this program looks like this: digit;count 1;122724 2;71614 3;21240 4;16455 5;9411 6;8057 7;4741 8;5170 9;4096 =end require_relative 'config' require 'csv' CACHE_DIR = Config.instance.cache_dir unless Dir.exist?(CACHE_DIR) raise "No such dir #{CACHE_DIR}, cannot run script" end CACHE_HISTOGRAM_INSTRUCTION_CONSTANT_CSV = File.join(CACHE_DIR, 'histogram_instruction_constant.csv') dict = Hash.new(0) CSV.foreach(CACHE_HISTOGRAM_INSTRUCTION_CONSTANT_CSV, col_sep: ";") do |row| count = row[0].to_i value = row[2].to_i next if count == 0 next if value == 0 value_string = value.abs.to_s first_digit_string = value_string[0] first_digit = first_digit_string.to_i dict[first_digit] += count end puts "Distribution of first digits" puts puts "digit;count" (1..9).each do |i| count = dict[i] puts "#{i};#{count}" end