On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
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> > Right now, people are reporting HTL values of 100 being necessary (I'm
> > ignoring people who say they use HTL of 500, Fred will just put that down to
> > 100 anyway). That means there is a 100/30 chance of reset. Yes, it is
> > almost assured that the DataSource field will be reset 3 times in it's
> > journey through the network. As simulations have shown, having the
> > DataSource field reset too often tends to lengthen network connections.
>
> 1 - (29/30)^100 = 0.967
>
> extremely high probability that the datasource is reset at least once.
> the probability that it's reset twice or three times would be a little
> harder to calculate and i'm sure someone who knows the formula off the
> top of their head will jump in..
Since the probablity of reset at each node is independent of whether it
was reset earlier, it is simply a binomial distribution. IE, the chance
that is reset r times in n hops is:
n!/((n-r)!*r!)*(29/30)^(n-r)*(1/30)^r
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