Quote from: DdmrDdmr on September 20, 2018, 07:03:58 PM

Quote from: r1s2g3 on September 20, 2018, 05:54:13 PM

<...>23045 is used as sum of 6 numbers and each number (or series) ended at 1. Practically 1 Merit is not useful to generate any Merit but when 6 series (each ended with 1) then you got extra 6 Merits, These 6 Merits can produce 4 full merits leaving the redundant smerits.<>

Thats what I figured. But lets say that you gave each of your numbers (the six you split the original into) to a different person, and each person sMerits another non-intersecting person in a linear manner. As you say, there will be six people with one Merit at the leaf of each linear chain. What we cannot do is then scoop those six units together, generate a batch of 6 sMerits, and generate four more after two steps. What I mean by this is that the last part of the algorithm does not seem to apply in practice to sMerits, because we cannot scoop the ones together...

I agree, I think we will end up in much larger leaf Nodes, Everybody who has earned odd number of Merit has potential .5 sMerit in unusable form.
46088 just define max potential that can be achieved by using all ideal conditions.

I think , if Theymos decide to decay the sMerits in future, instead of decaying it , it should be re assigned to Merit Source.