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on May 26, 2011
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About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinb...
With that decay rate, the difference between exponential and linear decay is going to be tough to pick out just by looking at the graph.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+e^%28x*ln%28.75%29...
edit: fixed decay constant
fhars
on May 26, 2011
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Yes, indeed. That is a nice graph, and in absence of a mechanism that would explain why no link can last longer than 28 years it should quite convincingly show that linear decay has not been established.
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edit: fixed decay constant