those equations are really just a rough guess.
I always wanted some better data, so I started a little project. Though of it after seeing the stat page that Gnucleus nodes send out when a web browser tries to connect. Pretty cool, You can use a spider to "surf" the gnutella network. Only works with gnucleus and shareaza, but check it out if you want.
gnuMap project:
http://home.attbi.com/~gregory.bray/