Different version, different difficulty (0.3.20.2 vs 0.3.24)

[payb.tc]

sorry i couldn't find this discussed elsewhere yet.

i'm noticing a different difficulty across bitcoin versions.

0.3.20: currently 1,890,361.69014
0.3.24: currently 1,888,786.70535

Just before this latest difficulty change, they were also slightly different from each other. Can someone point to why?

i guess the 0.3.24 number is more correct since it's a later version, but why is the older one therefore wrong?

just curious i guess, thanks.

[Raulo]

i guess the 0.3.24 number is more correct since it's a later version, but why is the older one therefore wrong?

The algorithm for calculating the printed difficulty was slightly inaccurate and was changed for a correct one. Since the printed difficulty is for humans only, it's not a big deal.

The discussion is here:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10002.0

[payb.tc]

i guess the 0.3.24 number is more correct since it's a later version, but why is the older one therefore wrong?

The algorithm for calculating the printed difficulty was slightly inaccurate and was changed for a correct one. Since the printed difficulty is for humans only, it's not a big deal.

The discussion is here:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10002.0

thank you... sending you some bitcents... so handy to be able to immediately see an address in your signature without asking you, despite all the threads talking about people's so-called 'begging' for donations.