It's the exact same formula. The "Max(1," added to the front means you will never get less than 1x the base points, as long as the WU is completed before the final deadline.
Both of those are assumed to be true when completing the WU in 3 days or less on a WU with a 6 day deadline. So I left those out, to keep things simpler.
But thanks for the updated WU data, and PPD data. The much larger numbers tend to help my argument.
When you go from 4 days to 2 days, 2x as fast, the PPD goes from 11,502 to 32,535, or 2.8x the PPD.
When you go from 2 days to 1 day, 2x as fast, the PPD goes from 32,535 to 92,023, or 2.8x the PPD, but 8x the first jump.
When you go from 1 days to .5 days, 2x as fast, the PPD goes from 92,023 to 260,281, or 2.8x the PPD, but 23x the first jump.
When you go from .5 days to .25 days, 2x as fast, the PPD goes from 260,281 to 736,185, or 2.8x the PPD, but 64x the first jump.
Power is doubling, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x, while points are tripling, 3, 9, 27, 81, 243, 729.
Moore's law is going to continue doubling power every 2 years, while the cost of that consumer system stays about the same. So with the QRB and tripling the points, that's the points inflation people are talking about. Points will escalate higher and higher while systems increase in speed at the same relative rate.
Why triple the points when the power is only doubled?
ChasR has some good insights. Raise the Base points. Surely that data section of the WU should be worth more than the bonus. Lower the K values (this comes naturally with larger base points). Lowering K decreases the slope of the curve when you get down to very short return times.
And use the 3rd root instead of the 2nd root!
32 core people are getting 250,000 PPD today, while most people have 8 cores, and they are getting 20,000 PPD.
Let's move the clock ahead a few years so that most people have 32 cores, and the top end people has 128 cores. That's 250,000 PPD versus 6,000,000 PPD.
And ahead again. 6,000,000 vs. 92,000,000 Can you imagine making a hundred million points per day?
Why triple the points when the power is only doubled?
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