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HIC SUNT DRACONES
A geomantic chart contains 1.75 dragons on average. (My daily geomantic charts contain 2.10 dragons on average.)
The chance of a chart containing a given number of dragons is:
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
19% | 28% | 26% | 16% | 7% | 2% | <1% | <1% | <1% | 0% | <1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
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They're all pretty similar; the differences are mostly down to whether the figure is even or odd (even figures can appear in Judges, and so are more common: even figures appear once per chart on average, while odd figures appear 0.875 times per chart on average) and in those rare charts where the figure dominates.
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There are no figures that have 12, 13, or 14 members.
The groupings of identical rows are also interesting to me. This might be a new form of companies-- Company simple, demi-simple, compound, and --frequency?