The Special Fish Report
Albert W. Small (December 1944)
Page 56
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Thus many problems at Arlington do not exist here in the same
form, and if Arlington wants them answered it must develop the desired
experience.
How accurate is the pippage-deciban procedure in rectangling?
To check this, twenty rectangles (18 Jellyfish, 2 Bream) of texts 4,800
to 24,531 letters long, were analysed.
Patterns were crudely decibanned (i.e., each pip evaluated at
10 log10 (N+X)/(N-X) dbs., approx 8.7X/N dbs.) (which they have called "first
approximation decibans" in their tables) and the rectangles were arbitrarily
divided into 4 classes:
Bad: X^2 /N < = 70.
Poor: 70 < X^2 /N < 80.
Moderate: 80 < = X^2 /N < = 90.
Good: 90 < X^2 /N
The tables that follow were then compiled from the actual results.
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