The reason for this request is to clarify the details for "pending" work units, which have two (or even three) tasks of apparently identical results (shown to 2 decimal places). On the face of it, the results of these tasks agree and should be validated.

This is (if I understand correctly) due to results of tasks being "strongly" or "weakly" similar. If the state of "similarity" is not revealed in an extra number of significant decimal figures, then my assumptions are not correct.

An explanation of what constitutes a validatable similarity would be appreciated, especially if it can be displayed to show why any validation has not taken place in a work unit.

I make this plea because about two thirds of my "Pending Credits" fall into this category. This appears to be a far higher proportion than other computers seem to accrue (and I should like to know why):

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=2881519

Keith

The reason for this request is to clarify the details for "pending" work units, which have two (or even three) tasks of apparently identical results (shown to 2 decimal places). On the face of it, the results of these tasks agree and should be validated.

This is (if I understand correctly) due to results of tasks being "strongly" or "weakly" similar. If the state of "similarity" is not revealed in an extra number of significant decimal figures, then my assumptions are not correct.

An explanation of what constitutes a validatable similarity would be appreciated, especially if it can be displayed to show why any validation has not taken place in a work unit.

I make this plea because about two thirds of my "Pending Credits" fall into this category. This appears to be a far higher proportion than other computers seem to accrue (and I should like to know why):

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=2881519

Keith

Strongly vs weakly similar is based on the science, not the credit claim. Extra digits in the pending credit would have no significance. Whether the result is valid depends on the number, location, ans size of the triplets, pulses, etc. that are found by the science application.

If you have a large number of tasks that fail validation, your computer has a problem - most likely overheating or severe overclocking, but there are other possible causes. Further discussion of this problem should probably go to either Getting Started, the correct OS forum, or Number Crunching.

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