I wrote:

> I took the file cleared.txt which lists all results that have been 
> checked in since the last database master sync. A quickly written 
> program produced the following stats:

Quickly, but with a serious flaw in it.

> If a computerID is defined to be active only on the day it checked in 
> the exponent if it checked in only one result, or on all the days 
> between the first and the last exponent checked in if it checked in 
> more than one result, than the maximum amount of accounts that were 
> active on the same day is 3.273.

Make that 9.990

based on cleared.txt containing:

96.591 exponents checked in, of which
13.327 are factors and
82.264 are LL tests.

There are
8.708 different useraccounts listed, with a total of
22.734 different computerID's

> This number is lower than the real amount of processors that work 
> simultaneous on primenet assigned exponents. But it is an indication 
> how much air is in the number of processors active listed on the 
> primenet statuspage due to pc's that never finish an assigned exponent.

Assume the amount of contributing processors to be in between 15.000 to 
23.000

Henk Stokhorst

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