#63 I+λ
The word “clock” occurs 47 times in Project Hail Mary (including in the plural but not counting “o’clock”, “clockwise”, or “counterclockwise”).
The singular is used 46 times and the plural 1 time.
In the Earth sections, the word “clock” appears just 2 times (both in the singular). Both times it is used by the narrator.
In the Space sections, the word “clock” appears 44 times in the singular and 1 time in the plural. Grace uses the singular 38 times as narrator and 5 times in direct speech. He uses the plural 1 time as narrator. Rocky never uses the word. The Computer uses it 1 time.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match “clock” or “clocks” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
every lab needs an analog clock
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