On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:19 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:15:20PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > saying that the port range is exponential doesn't pin it down very much. > > it still requires the host to make decisions about precisely what kind > > of exponential curve to use for the range, and it may get it wrong. > > It does pin it down completely. Given the endpoint values there is only > one exponential curve, and it's simple enough to compute in both > directions.
note: the hint didn't say "exponential". it said "logarithmic".
