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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:05:59 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:04:50PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> I think if you expect x commits per hour, and need y hours to prune,
> then you should be able to get a worst-case estimate of hours between
> y-hour gaps from
> 
> 	octave -q --eval "1/poisscdf(0,x/y)"

Uh, sorry, that should be x*y, not x/y....