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As Fox News' Carl Cameron put it: "The other seven candidates could not crack double digits."
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
The D&B codes, as I ascertained after extensive cruising around on the Internet, had eight or (in some accounts) nine digits and provided much more detailed information about one's place in the economy.
This method is rough (and thus not perfectly well-defined), but it is a fairly effective shorthand: do not report significant digits (i.e.
Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six.
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