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Six million ghosts?
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alan Send message Joined: 18 Feb 00 Posts: 131 Credit: 401,606 RAC: 0 |
Please tell me I'm reading this wrong: Roughly 8 million results have been returned and are awaiting validation. There are roughly 4 million results out in the field. That seems to say that more than 4 million results will never be validated, probably a lot more. I must be wrong. But what am I missing? Could there be 6 million ghosts or more - results where the second unit never got sent out? |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
A workunit consists of a number of results (up to 10), a lot of those results will be paired up with one or more other results where validation is inconclusive at the moment, So there are probably somewhat less than 4 million workunits awaiting validation. Claggy |
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