Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 01:51:49 08/31/02
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On August 30, 2002 at 23:00:30, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >On August 30, 2002 at 21:03:25, Uri Blass wrote: > >>>> >>>>I know this :-) >>>> >>>>But there is the odd/even issue, so the b-factor can change drastically while >>>>moving from an odd ply to an even ply, and vice versa. >>> >>>I think the best is to calculate an average branching factor from all plys. >>> >>>bf[avg] = ( bf[2] + bf[3] + bf[4] ... + bf[n] ) / (n - 1) >>> >>>Andreas >> >>It is better to use >>( bf[2] * bf[3] * bf[4] ... * bf[n] )^(1/(n-1)) Not if the numbers bf[i] are ratios of the type bf[i] = T[i]/T[i-1] (e.g.) Then everything will cancel out except for the first and last T[i] Ralf >> >>Uri >
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