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What happens to the order when a stream divides into more than one channel? —Ian Spackman 02:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's not related to the tributary problem discussed here, but some distributaries (i.e., Wax Lake Delta) are similarly fractal. Awickert (talk) 03:39, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is discussed in river bifurcation. I just removed some material from that article that more properly belongs here. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, just one comment: It might help the reader (at least me) if the page explicitly mentioned that everything here is about rooted trees. (In particular, "paths of degree-one nodes" is a bit strange if you think free trees. This could be replaced with something slightly less ambiguous.) — Miym (talk) 07:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Strahler number of a tree is almost the same thing as its pathwidth, right? Can this observation be sourced, adequately enough to include it in the article? —David Eppstein (talk) 17:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A similar measure of "downstreamness" is the Shreve measure whereby a channel with no previous tributaries would be a first order stream, a channel with three tributaries upstream would be a third order stream. My A-level geography class used this as a crude method of showing how downstream we were and it proved quite effective. If I havent been clear enough (probably not it's hard to explain) have a look at this website which has a quick diagram of both the shreve and strahler measures http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Stream%20Order Would it be worth making a new page for this and tagging it onto "see also" or should the shreve method be added to the bottom of this page Biqh (talk) 10:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]