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

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 04:01:33 08/15/03

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On August 15, 2003 at 05:29:19, Kolss wrote:

>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.


Because there is no "official consensus", but your approach looks also fine.

My best,

Ed



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