Subject: Re: UK Brag: Top 2%
From: raj@rijhwani.org (Raj Rijhwani)
Date: 27/07/2004, 02:41
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Monday, in article
     <WZeNc.669$Ue.487@text.usenetserver.com>
     newsgroups@(remove-this-part)briandickens.demon.nl
     "Brian Dickens" wrote:

Stuart Gibson wrote:

Results Received  2772
Total CPU Time  1.756 years
Average CPU Time per work unit  5 hr 32 min 55.2 sec
Average results received per day  1.47
Last result returned: Mon Jul 26 20:55:09 2004 UTC
Registered on: Fri May 28 18:28:36 1999 UTC

SETI@home user for: 5.167 years

Your rank out of 5074213 total users is:  101473rd place.
The number of users who have this rank:  36
You have completed more work units than  98.000% of our users.

Let's see if I can reach Top 1% before it gets switched off...

Don't hold your breath -- you're not gonna reach it.

I've got 4155 WU's and I have completed more work than 98.714% of the S@H
users... which means you'll have to crunch approximately 2000 WU's to get
into that top one percent... :)

Its a non-linear gradient and a receding target.  In 2001 I reached a peak 
of 99.748% on October 31, with 5333 units and 8422nd place, turning out 
an average of about 5.5 units a day.  Today I am in joint 26415th place, 
at 99.479%, and falling at a slowly accelerating rate, with a credit of 
8503 units, and a production rate of around around 8 units a day.

Bottom line - you need to be farming to climb the ladder.  Never mind 
just do it for the satisfaction of knowing that, barring the opinions 
of the odd detractor, it's a worthwhile investigation and every little 
bit counts.
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