I found a code to determine the granted credit from 2 or more valid credits.

It's self-explanatory and easy to read.

this code

see below
// the granted credit is the average of claimed credits
// of valid results, discarding the largest and smallest

line and you'll understand. (sorry I don't know how to put the code in this message board. It's displayed in a strange format.)

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Luckiest in the world. WMD = Weapon of Mass Distraction.
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I found a code to determine the granted credit from 2 or more valid credits.

It's self-explanatory and easy to read.

this code

see below
// the granted credit is the average of claimed credits
// of valid results, discarding the largest and smallest

line and you'll understand. (sorry I don't know how to put the code in this message board. It's displayed in a strange format.)

Like this?

  // the granted credit is the average of claimed credits
        // of valid results, discarding the largest and smallest
        //
        if (nvalid == 2) {
            granted_credit = min_credit;
        } else {
	    // Take care of case where all claimed credits are equal.
	    if (max_credit == min_credit) {
		granted_credit = min_credit;
	   } else {
           	sum = 0;
            	for (k=0; k

Well I started out thinking "this will be easy" but for some reason if I try to post anything beyond the final k it gets truncated and the formatting is lost. A problem with the forum I think.

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use "<pre>" and you also have to convert all the < and > into &lt; and &gt;

        // the granted credit is the average of claimed credits
        // of valid results, discarding the largest and smallest
        //
        if (nvalid == 2) {
            granted_credit = min_credit;
        } else {
	    // Take care of case where all claimed credits are equal.
	    if (max_credit == min_credit) {
		granted_credit = min_credit;
	   } else {
           	sum = 0;
            	for (k=0; k<results.size(); k++) {
	    		if (!sah_results[k].have_result) continue;
               	 	if (results[k].validate_state != VALIDATE_STATE_VALID) continue;
               		if (k == max_credit_i) continue;
               	 	if (k == min_credit_i) continue;
               	 	sum += results[k].claimed_credit;
            	}
            	granted_credit = sum/(nvalid-2);
	   }
        }
        for (k=0; k<results.size(); k++) {
            if (results[k].validate_state == VALIDATE_STATE_VALID) {
                results[k].granted_credit = granted_credit;
            }
        }
    } else {
        canonicalid = 0;
    }

    retval = 0;
return_retval:
    return retval;
}

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use "<pre>" and you also have to convert all the < and > into < and >
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Thanks. This is what I wanted to quote :) This describes how to calculate granted credits, except that this doesn't tell what triggers this caluculation;

When only 2 valid results are present, the lowest is granted.
When 3 valid results are present, the highest and the lowest credits are discarded, and the middle value is granted. When 4 or more valid results are present (for ex, after long outage, many results have been waiting for validation), the highest and the lowest values are discarded, and the average of the other claimed credits is granted. Precisely speaking, calculation is the same either when 3 valid results are present or when 4 or more valid resuls are present. I think I have understood,

YES, I must have understood!! :)

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Luckiest in the world. WMD = Weapon of Mass Distraction.
Click this table.

I think I said that in the Wiki ... I will have to try to remember to look at it tomorrow to see if we are that clear as that is what it is ...

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