Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 15:33:54 02/19/05
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On February 17, 2005 at 18:20:34, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On February 17, 2005 at 17:41:04, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>In other words, when i observe this behaviour has the engine quit or does it >>still search at it's normal strength regardless of the low kN/s #? > >I guess it is no problem normally, and the engine will work with normal >strength. My engine also shows this behaviour. What happens is, that the counter >for the nodes will overflow typically after about 4 billion nodes. When reaching >this number of nodes, it will start at zero again. > >It is similar to the milage counter on your car. Perhaps it has 5 digits, and >after mile 99999 it will jump to zero again (it will "overflow"). If your car >also had a stop watch for the time you drive, it could show your average speed >by dividing miles through the hours on the watch. When you hit 100000 miles, the >average speed will hit zero. Still your car did not get slower really. > >Regards, >Dieter Thank's for your response and to the others too! I guess the next question would be, why don't you guys fix this :) ? I don't see this behaviour in Shredder or Fritz, but pretty much in all the amateurs and even a few pro's, a lot of people use engines for analysis and i am sure choose either Shredder and Fritz "just to be safe".
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