User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey of named and unnamed commas: Difference between revisions

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 Conducted Saturday 16 November, 2024.
+Summary of findings:
+* 52% of all named commas were named in the 2020s
+* The person who named the most commas was Xenllium (143 commas, 19.5% of all named commas)
+* The person who named the 2nd most commas was Gene Ward Smith (38 commas, 5% of all named commas)
+* The most common things for commas to be named after (excluding systematic names) are:
+** The intervals they stack/equate (13%)
+** Their size as an interval (8%)
+** Composers/music theorists (7%)
+** Asteroids (8%)
+** The names of two temperaments combined into one word (5%)
+** Polymaths (4%)
+** Place names (4%)
+** A famous occurence of a number in the world (3.5%)
+* 22.5% of named commas are named for unknown reasons/after an unknown thing
+* 5% of commas with pages have no names at all except systematically generated names
 == Totals ==