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What is the source of information for the RC5 personal stats on team.macnn.com? Do they come from distributed.net, or the team proxy rc5.macnn.com?

I only ask this, because I've been tracking my progress separately by checking in on distributed.net every few days and entering the data into a spreadsheet. When I noticed that their numbers and my numbers did not add up, I checked thru what I had and found a discrepancy of 1,555 blocks in my favor.

What I discovered is below :

Date Original New Diff
------------ -------- --- ----
Apr 6, 2002 271 271
Apr 7, 2002 211 482 271
Apr 8, 2002 264 746 482
Apr 9, 2002 243 989 746
Apr 10, 2002 308 308 0

The column marked "Original" is what I recorded around those dates in April. The column marked "New" is what I recorded on June 25th. I thought it was weird until I noticed the progression in the differences.

What gives?

[reader50]

Our data comes from the team's <a href="http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmember.php?project_id=5&team=865184860" target="_blank">member listing</a> on dnetc. Your spreadsheet data most likely comes from your personal page on dnetc.

For some reason (probably buggy code) the two dnetc pages do not always agree. The deviation is small, and vanishes now and then. You are not the first person to ask why the figures do not match, it appears that dnetc tallies them at slightly different times. I wish they would fix their code base, the numbers should match.

<small>[ 06-25-2002, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: reader50 ]</small>