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Title: This artical needs fixing on the bitcoin wiki Post by: FreshJR on April 05, 2013, 05:16:44 PM https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Generation_Calculator
***(I HAD AN ISSUE WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS because the current target is not a decimal number) *** we need a step to convert the hexadecimal target to a decimal number *** the target might not even be a hexadecimal value because when i converted it, and did the math I didnt get the current difficulty When looking at steps 1-3 they say: Step 1 is get current target Step 2 is divided current target by max target Step 3 is take reciprocal Why not say: Step 1 - get max target. Also, instead of writing out that number write out 2^256 for brevity. Step 2 - get current target. Step 3 - convert the current target from hexadec to decimal. Step 4 - divide step 1 by step 2 (max target/current target), which is equivalent to the average number of hashes needed to solve a block and is also the current difficulty. Step 5 - Divide the average number of hashes by your hash/s (not khash/s) to get the average number of seconds required to solve a block. (Additional Info) - The recipricol of step 4 is the probability of a single hash solving a block Title: Re: This artical needs fixing on the bitcoin wiki Post by: kjj on April 05, 2013, 07:49:58 PM What makes you think that this procedure returns the current difficulty? The page says pretty clearly that it returns the average number of hashes required to solve a block.
Or are you just forgetting to divide by 232 to convert hashes to difficulty? Title: Re: This artical needs fixing on the bitcoin wiki Post by: FreshJR on April 07, 2013, 07:34:57 PM What makes you think that this procedure returns the current difficulty? The page says pretty clearly that it returns the average number of hashes required to solve a block. Or are you just forgetting to divide by 232 to convert hashes to difficulty? Because this page defined difficulty as max target/current target https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty |