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

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