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Subject: Re: To Ed: Branching factor formula in Rebel 12

Author: Kolss

Date: 02:29:19 08/15/03

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On August 15, 2003 at 01:50:53, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On August 15, 2003 at 01:04:21, Federico Corigliano wrote:
>
>>What's the formula for calculating the (effective) branching factor in Rebel 12
>>(DOS)?
>>I'm interesting in add it to my engine.
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Federico
>
>
>Frederico,
>
>The most easiest and fair rule I could think off is to maintain the time of the
>first mainvariation of the current iteration (t1) and the time of the first
>mainvariation of the previous iteration (t2), then the branch factor is:
>
>bf=t1/t2
>
>My best,
>
>Ed

Hi Ed,

I do not know what the "official consensus" is on this, but why did you not take
the times needed to finish iterations - thus t1 = time to finish iteration x, t2
= time to finish iteration (x - 1) => ebf = t1 / t2 ?

Regards, Munjong.



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