It is not as clear now as it used to be, but there is a confirmation of the shrewdness of the Everything guys' choice of levels in that many levels had about as many members as the total of those above it.   (Is there a mathematical word for that?)

Of course, saints tend to pile up (they hit that heavenly glass ceiling), and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th levels could be only two levels (I remember hearing that this was deliberate, so that there would be more early progress).   It seems more evenly shmeared now, but I wonder how much of that is "deadwood" (like take me, for instance*), who reached a certain point and haven't been back since.

dws' suggestion of charting over time might be interesting, but maybe just one or two more :Number of Monks breakdowns for the last month and the last 6 months. . .   And of course, I'd be curious to see them stacked vertically in "Towers of Hanoi" fashion (I'm sure there's a word for that).

  p

* ...but I'm hoping to get some time to get back here (don't ever let anyone sucker you into that "get a life" stuff).

In reply to Re: Calculating the monastery hierarchy by petral
in thread Calculating the monastery hierarchy by CodeHound

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