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Subject: Re: Does SSDF list show diminishing returns? Some calculations

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:19:00 10/09/01

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On October 08, 2001 at 05:48:55, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Hi
>
>On October 08, 2001 at 03:13:22, Jouni Uski wrote:
>[snip]
>
>>In average 3,70. This gives (log2/log3,7)*84 = 45 points for speed doubling.
>>Previously it has been spoken about 60-70 points for doubling, so there is
>>diminishing returns now!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>That or either the previous or the new claim is based on shaky data. ;)
>
>Sargon

In reply to Dann Corbit I can say that the error here is smaller than the error
of one program because when we look at the average gain of a lot of programs we
get smaller error than the erro in one program.

I guess that the error margin for the average is close to 10 elo.

Uri



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