Some of the things that I think bumface/ziggy needs to do from my point of view:
1. Explain more about the N-factor. MANY people does not know about this.
We need to know the dates of when the N-factor changes for UTC and what that implies.
It's a BIG part of UTC so I don't understand how this is not explained on the OP from day 1.
bumface, you told me you'll speak to ziggy about this 3 days ago? What happened?
I'll post my N-factor timetable again, derived from the code in
https://github.com/ziggy909/ultracoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp starting at line 994. I made a little javascript loop with the same calculations starting with Ultracoins sj-time.
var sjtime = 1388361600;
var Ntime;
var l = 0;
var seconds = 0;
var s = 0;
var n = 0;
var N = 0;
var last = 8; // no output until N=9
while (seconds < 12884901888)
{
seconds += 1;
s = seconds;
l = 0;
n = 0;
N = 0;
while ((s >> 1) > 3)
{
l += 1;
s >>= 1;
}
s &= 3;
n = (l * 170 + s * 25 - 2320) / 100;
if (n < 0) n = 0;
N = Math.floor(n);
if (N > last)
{
last = N;
Ntime = new Date(sjtime*1000 + seconds*1000);
//print("N-Factor :" + N + " significant digits :" + l + " leftovers :" + s + " raw N :" + n + " Seconds from start :" + seconds);
print("N-Factor :" + N + " Date :" + Ntime.toUTCString());
}
}
This is the output (i used a javascript console bookmarklet in firefox, it shut down the script before it got past N-factor 17)
N-Factor :9 Date :Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:32:32 GMT
N-Factor :10 Date :Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:05:04 GMT
N-Factor :11 Date :Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:21:20 GMT
N-Factor :12 Date :Sun, 06 Apr 2014 02:10:08 GMT
N-Factor :13 Date :Sat, 24 May 2014 15:15:12 GMT
N-Factor :14 Date :Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:20:16 GMT
N-Factor :15 Date :Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:40:32 GMT
N-Factor :16 Date :Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:50:40 GMT
N-Factor :17 Date :Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:21:04 GMT
The next N-factor increase should be on the 28th of this month.