Re: Programming Help, Please.

Michael Hart wrote:
> I'd like to automate my calculations that compare our progress to that
> predicted by Moore's Law, in several different respects.
> 
> 1.  From 10 eBooks on December 10, 1990
> 2.  From 100 eBooks on December 10, 1993
> 3.  From 1000 eBooks on August 1, 1997
> 4.  From 5000 eBooks on January 1, 2004

Hi! I didn't have these dates in my database so i've added them. The 
year for the last one is wrong so i've used 2002 instead. Can you 
confirm that this number is correct for 2002-01-01?

>>From 12 months ago
> 
>>From 18 months ago
> 
> I'd like a program we can run each week,
> or even fill in to do future/past weeks.

http://ibiblio.org/HTMLTexts/GutPredict/

At the moment, the stats only go up to the 7th of July. If anyone can 
send me the numbers from then 'til now, i'd be grateful :-) I've been 
using the weekly newsletters for the Wednesday figures for each week and 
using the daily reports from the Posted lists to get figures for the 
other days of the week. Sadly, I just moved from Windows to Linux so 
have lost my archive of GWeekly & Posted.

Hope the page does everything you want. If there's some functionality 
missing (or, shock horror, a bug!) please let me know...

Cheers,
Holden

P.S. It shows that we're a LONG way AHEAD of Moore's law using 
1990-12-10 as the base. More recent numbers show that we're a little behind.



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