Quote from: Caesium on May 20, 2013, 02:20:00 PM

Quote from: Dyaheon on May 20, 2013, 02:17:43 PM

Quote from: Caesium on May 20, 2013, 02:09:19 PM

Almost, but not quite - if the difficulty increases by 18%, then the time to reach that change will be 18% less than 2 weeks. (because the 2016 blocks were found 18% faster).

Close, but it's actually 1/1.18 ~ 0.85 or 15% less than 2 weeks. 100% increase would be 50% less, or 1 week etc.

Good catch, I stand corrected.

Can anyone give me a realistic formula to use when calculating the difficultly increase?