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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance
by
AnhBen
on 10/01/2014, 18:20:43 UTC
Here's an updated formula for calculating blocks/day:

blocks/day = chains/day * (0.97 * (1 - fracDiff) + 0.03)

Here fracDiff is the fractional part of the difficulty, i.e. fracDiff = diff - floor(diff).

This is simply assuming that it's a 0.03 probability for the (k+1)'th number being prime in a chain. These result in longer chains which are not subject to the fractional difficulty. This number was produced by the function EstimateNormalPrimeProbability() in my latest code. It's a bit smaller than my previous estimate of 0.035 being the probability.

Can you add this to the next release so that we all can at least see it when running getmininginfo/getinfo?