Hi.
Why not putting on stats page something like "Points found: NNNNN ,
probability of success: XX%" ?
So everybody can see< how much work left to be done.
Mikhail.
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От: Philippe Deschamp <Philippe.Deschamp@inria.fr>
Кому: ecdl-list@pauillac.inria.fr <ecdl-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Дата: 19 января 2000 г. 19:03
Тема: Re: Point Comparison
>Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
>
>> > > With 1.3 millions points, it is 1/2.
>> >
>> > something like half the remaining space? As it stands, if we are not
>> > lucky the web page will still state that we need about 1.3 million
>> > points... when we have more than that. At the moment, with 0.4
>> > million received, you could display an estimate of 1.1 million yet
>> > to compute.
>>
>> Mmm... but if we pass the value of 1.3 millions, the displaying would
>> be negative.
>
>I meant : display the number of points still needed to reach the new,
>current, 1/2 probability. This should change with each point we find. I
>would have thought that if we reach the 1.3 million mark, we still need
>probably half that much, 650 thousand points. But maybe there's something
>I did not understand.
>
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