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#21 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I'm 37 million short and the team stand at 8,919 million.

I'll not show my working (calculate it yourselves guys, :roll: ) but it's time for me to upwardly revise my guess! :)

Janos ............. 9,034
Andy Manzie...... 9,035
Megacruncher ... 9,036
Silver ............. 9,041
PinkPenguin .... 9,045
MacDitch .........9,048
Buster ............ 9,050
Cyclone Ranger . 9,063
Alez ............... 9,065
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#22 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I'm revising downwards :( 9,032
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#23 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I want up revise my estimate to 9,059,000,000
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#24 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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One went up, one went down!

Alez ............... 9,032
Janos ............. 9,034
Megacruncher ... 9,036
Silver ............. 9,041
PinkPenguin .... 9,045
MacDitch .........9,048
Buster ............ 9,050
Andy Manzie...... 9,059
Cyclone Ranger . 9,063
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#25 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Right, so I've just passed 1,974.1 million. The current TSBT total is 8,953.7 million.

Here's some help for anyone unwilling to take their socks off. All you need to do is guess how many more million the team will crunch in the time that it takes me to crunch 25.9 million.

At worst I am likely to contribute a quarter of the team credit which would make the correct answer 9,057. More likely I will crunch something closer to, at best, a third of our credit which would make the answer 9,032. For now I'm happy with my current guess. Some of the rest of you might want to move to the centre a little bit?! :D
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#26 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Megacruncher wrote:At worst I am likely to contribute a quarter of the team credit which would make the correct answer 9,057. More likely I will crunch something closer to, at best, a third of our credit which would make the answer 9,032. For now I'm happy with my current guess. Some of the rest of you might want to move to the centre a little bit?! :D
...so, if Big Mega decides to compromise between his best and worst, the result should be 9,044.5. Someone should cover the 9,044 slot as I've already got the 9,045 slot covered. That way he's surrounded... [exits stage left, with an evil and slightly insane cackle!] :tongue3:
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#27 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Did you factor in Silver's new 7970 order, the post office strike and leaves on the line?
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#28 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Janos wrote:Did you factor in Silver's new 7970 order, the post office strike and leaves on the line?
There are so many factors to this competition it is either: Really complicated to work out with a multitude of factors to take into account or guesswork :)
The idea that I could have an effect on the result with new hardware never occurred but I will have to keep it in mind ;)
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#29 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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A new variable... my shiny box arrived! No cables though, they must be in the OTHER box!

How can two boxes be shipped together and end up delivered on different days...
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#30 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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You're probably lucky you got BOTH of them. :wink:
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#31 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Janos wrote:How can two boxes be shipped together and end up delivered on different days...
They follow Non-Euclidean trajectories... :D
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#32 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Loads of variables! Maybe best to keep it to wild guess work!
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9,031 Million, says I now! :D
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#33 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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MacDitch .........9,030
Megacruncher ... 9,031
Alez ............... 9,032
Janos ............. 9,034
Silver ............. 9,041
PinkPenguin .... 9,045
Buster ............ 9,050
Andy Manzie...... 9,059
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#34 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Down to 9,035
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#35 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Well, here's to a little optimism... 9,028
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#36 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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More optimism and a recap

PinkPenguin .... 9,028
Megacruncher ... 9,029
MacDitch .........9,030
Alez ............... 9,032
Janos ............. 9,034
Buster ............ 9,035
Silver ............. 9,041
Andy Manzie...... 9,059
Cyclone Ranger . 9,063

1985.7 Million now so it should be over before the weekend is so get your revised guesses in now while some good ones remain and before the 24 hour roll-back rule kicks in.
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#37 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I'm changing to 9,033 and hope I wasn't right the first time :?
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#38 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Reclaiming 9,031 - recent surge in the team output - it looks like some people have got new toys. :)
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#39 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Conspiracy theory:

Is it cheating when you use social engineering (NLP) to get people to buy a 7970 card just to win a competition? Even when you you declared at the start that proceeds would go to charity?
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#40 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Janos wrote:Conspiracy theory:

Is it cheating when you use social engineering (NLP) to get people to buy a 7970 card just to win a competition? Even when you you declared at the start that proceeds would go to charity?
Nothing in the rules prohibiting it & indeed it sounds like the sort of tactical play that should be encouraged.
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#41 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Great, now I need Silver to sort out his overclock settings... mahahaha
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#42 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Janos wrote:Great, now I need Silver to sort out his overclock settings... mahahaha
Silver might be doing some throttling or overclocking if it might help me or my pirate chum ;)
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#43 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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You guys are truly a band of pirates.
Remind me to never bet on the opposite side of the book from you guys.
A round of rum for my mates. :sign5:
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#44 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Always remember to count your fingers after shaking hands with a pirate. Yarrr !! :pirate:
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#45 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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The state of play is:

PinkPenguin .... 9,028
MacDitch .........9,030
Megacruncher ... 9,031
Alez ............... 9,032
Silver ............. 9,033
Janos ............. 9,034
Buster ............ 9,035
Andy Manzie...... 9,059
Cyclone Ranger . 9,063

I'm on 1,991.4 and the team's on 9,003.1 which means that the best guesses are probably already bagged. But anyone wanting to revise theirs should do so soon lest they fall foul of the 24 hour rollback rule! I reckon that the comp has at most 55 hours left to run.

Don't worry Buster, you're in with a good chance, if I don't get it I'll do my best to hand it to you. I think the gloves are well & truly off, tactics cut both (or it seems more) ways, and we old-timers have to stick together! :twisted: :lol:
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#46 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Situation now is that:
I am on 1994.7.
TSBT is on 9,017.3
9,031 will be exceeded, no bother, :| so I shall aim for 9,036.
I'll try & avoid any outright cheating (as referee that'll be easy enough) but just look out for a sudden interest in Einstein and Seti! :lol:
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#47 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I'm jumping for 9,037 but I recon Buster has it at 9,035
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I should have stayed with my original estimate of 9,035 :angryfire: :angryfire: :angryfire: :angryfire:
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#49 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I have to say that the team is tearing along at a very impressive lick. Impressed as I am by my own 4 million per day over the last week, TSBT's 12.7 million per day is quite jaw dropping. :shock: 8)

I'm 1.7 million short and the team total stands at 9,029.7. Which means that the comp will end in about 10 hour. If I'm up early enough and get all the machines updated timeously.

There certainly isn't scope for any valid or useful revised guesses so the final guesses are:

PinkPenguin .... 9,028
MacDitch .........9,030
Silver ............. 9,033
Janos ............. 9,034
Buster ............ 9,035
Megacruncher ... 9,036
Alez ............... 9,037
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#50 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Your right Mega, I looked at the stats earlier and thought 12.7 million was either amazing or a mistake!

I'm beginning to think i would've been better sticking to my my initial guess of 9,041 :?
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#51 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Told you not to buy that 7970 card! :roll:
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#52 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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...So much for optimism. that's me deeded! :roll:
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#53 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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He is going to win his own comp!
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#54 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Janos wrote:He is going to win his own comp!
And so I did!

10am scores were

TSBT 9,036,255,329
Mega 2,000,007,604

Yay for me! :wav:

Alez as runner up gets to choose the charity I give the prize to. :D
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#55 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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What was the prize again? Was it a year of hard labor for rigging the comp ? :D Congratulations, for a minute there I thought I was going to win 3 in a row :shock:

If I have the honor of choosing the charity, then I would nominate either the RNLI, Help for Heroes or the RAF Benevolent Fund. You can choose whichever one sits best with you. However I would point out that it is nearly Xmas :? and all 3 do have online shops, so it would be acceptable for the the prize to be donated in the form of some Xmas shopping.

http://www.rnlishop.org.uk/
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/
http://www.rafbf.org/

and of course all three would gladly accept some xmas shopping by non competition winners too :D
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#56 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Well done Mega, not only for winning your own competition but for hitting the ridiculous high number of two billion! Also everyone else for upping their game and increasing output to make the calculation even more complicated :)
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#57 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Congratulations!
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#58 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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I lost by 255,030. Damn that little toe.

Nice job Willie, I think. :roll:

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#59 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Well done... No.1, over 2 Big Ones and now, competition winner... :wav:

I got a feeling we're not going to hear the end of this for a while! :toothy2:
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#60 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Alez wrote:What was the prize again? Was it a year of hard labor for rigging the comp ? :D
I was intending to reduce my output a little so as to thwart you hypnotists and conniving buccaneers & to hand victory to Buster. Now that would have been rigging the comp: As it was the team speed up meant I had to pull out all the stops to avoid the team total reaching 9,037 million. So in the end I rigged it in the way that Usain Bolt rigs the 100m by running really fast! Anyway I'd have thought some rigging would have made you feel at home! :lol:

Okay I'll opt for Help for heroes and take a look at the other two as well.
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#61 Re: Double Billion Fun.

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Megacruncher wrote:I had to pull out all the stops to avoid the team total reaching 9,037 million.
Scandalous, I'm shocked you would resort to such underhanded tactics to thwart my world competition domination :D

Congratulations again on #1 and the BIG 2. Cheers for stumping up to what I regard as a worthy charity.
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