Arjan van de Ven said: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:10 +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dear all, >> >> I have always wondered (setting here waiting for FC3 to install) how the >> install time for an RPM is calculated. > > It involves the square root of the median of the imaginary and real > parts of the complex number that is composed of the MAC address and MHz > of your cpu. So do I need to convert the MAC address from Hex first? What angle do I use for the imaginary number also? > > Or maybe it just sees how many megabytes have been done so far and > extrapolates based on that (with a fixed added time added to compensate > for some fixed overhead) Hpw does it know how many megs have pasted? > > (just as a side note; it's rumored that for OS/2, IBM researchers > actually tried to map "feeling" of time as opposed to wallclock time in > their install progress estimator, and ended up with a logarithmic scale, > in the beginning people are still patient while near the end they loose > patentience, so near the end visible progress needs to go faster for the > same amount of wallclock progress) > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
