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Subject: Re: The page in question - Give me a break

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:26:33 09/03/02

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On September 03, 2002 at 15:50:45, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On September 03, 2002 at 15:42:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>http://sjeng.sourceforge.net/ftp/hyatt1.png
>>
>>I will try to upload the full article as soon as I can.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>You've got to be kidding.  When Vincent posts the numbers, he's got all these
>trailing zeros.  What's with that?
>
>It is Vincent that's faking numbers here, not Bob.  Bob's numbers are just
>rounded off.
>
>Vincent is the one emitting bogons here.


If you didn't see my response elsewhere, this output was produced by a program
I wrote to "eat" Cray Blitz log files.  I did this for my dissertation as I
produced tens of thousands of test position logs for that.

I believe that it does something similar to what I do today, which means that
anything between 1.71 and 1.8 is treated as 1.8, 1.81 to 1.9 is 1.9.  I am
not _certain_ as I don't have any of the old files left, they were all lost
somewhere around 96-97.  And I might be wrong.  But something tells me that
all this was integer values in Cray Blitz's logs, which means that it would
be convenient to compute speedup = something + roundup and truncate it as it
was all done in integers.

however, I won't bet my life that I did that as the "log eater" was written in
1987 while working on my dissertation.  that is a _long_ time ago to remember
some tiny detail inside the thing...



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