Notes

Chapter 8: Implications for Everyday Systems

Section 5: Fundamental Issues in Biology


Software [system] statistics

Empirical analysis of the million or so lines of source code that make up Mathematica suggests that different functions—which are roughly analogous to different genes—rather accurately follow an exponential distribution of sizes, with a slightly elevated tail.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]