HIC SUNT DRACONES

[sdi]

 

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%

Comments

[sdi]

Your wish is my command...

Figure	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Populus	41%	33%	17%	5%	2%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	0%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	<1%
Pure Elements	42%	34%	19%	4%	1%	<1%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Fortunas	37%	35%	20%	5%	2%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Amissio, Acquisitio, Conjunctio, Carcer	36%	36%	21%	6%	1%	<1%	<1%	0%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Dragons, Puer, Puella	43%	34%	18%	4%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	0%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Via	36%	36%	21%	5%	1%	<1%	<1%	0%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

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.

[emmanuelg]

Thanks!
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?