Linguistic credit again goes to the Supermemo guys :-) http://www.supermemo.com/english/ol/sm2.htm
Easiness is essentially just a number which gets higher the easier a card is deemed to be. Peter On Thursday, November 18, 2010 05:24:01 pm Dougie Nisbet wrote: > That's a lovely word. Easiness. I'm going to start slipping it into > conversations! > > Dougie > > On 18/11/2010 16:16, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > The interval is reset, but not it's easiness. (That's how the original > > SM2 algorithm works, too) > > > > Peter > > > > On Thursday, November 18, 2010 04:59:02 pm Dougie Nisbet wrote: > >> But it's not treated the same as a new card is it? Once it's then > >> remembered again does its intervals start increasing at a bigger gap > >> than a brand new card? > >> > >> Dougie > >> > >> On 18/11/2010 12:04, Peter Bienstman wrote: > >>> In that case, the interval is set back to zero. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Peter > >>> > >>> On Nov 18, 11:05 am, Alex White<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I understand how the algo works in getting things right, but say for > >>>> instance I am on a 50 interval for a card (got it right loads of times > >>>> in a row) and I mark it as 0 or 1 does the interval start again or is > >>>> say the interval time split in half for example. > >>>> > >>>> I hope that makes sense. > >>>> > >>>> thanks in advance. > >>>> > >>>> Alex -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
