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RE: Marketplace Support
Now, I *know* I'll be asked, again, how I determine the number of boxes produced.
First, I observe that the Pedigree Tree page displays the actual sequence number.
So, I go to Charm's Cattery and click on the box she produced a few minutes ago. I see that it's sequence number (catid) is 1154245.
That number, 1154245, is weakly encoded. The first digit is "hexadecimal" .. has 16 values instead of 10. So I break it into two fields: "1" and "154245". That means we're 154245 boxes into "sequence 1, out of 16".
For a quick estimate, I just multiply 150000 by 16 .. 2.4million
The actual figure is
+16*10 (16 series of 1 decimal digit each .. all "two digit" catid's)
+16*100 (16 series of 2 decimal digits .. all "three digit" catid's)
+16*1000 (...)
+16*10000
+16*100000
+16*150000 (where we are now)
So, I guess a better estimate for boxes is 6.2 million boxes. And I should treble my estimates. Sigh. Anna's right I really SHOULD check my math instead of using quick estimates.
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