Topic: Does the system allow you to send merit to yourself? (Read 250 times)
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1491
The first decentralized crypto betting platform
Locking this thread because latest discussion has nothing to do with what I asked and my question has already been answered.
It's good that limit was put into place. If one person had say 100 sMerit, they could merit themselves around 197 merits before they ran out of those merit as each merit is worth a half of the previous merit.
The power of merit farming LOL| --------- | --------- |
| 100 | => 100 |
| 50 | => 150 |
| 25 | => 175 |
| 12 (0.5 Extra Merit/or 1 s Merit that cannot be divided) | => 187 |
| 6 (0.5 Extra Merit/or 1 s Merit that cannot be divided) | => 193 |
| 3 (0.5 Extra Merit/or 1 s Merit that cannot be divided) | => 196 |
| 1 (but division of 3/2 yielded one more .5 and we have already extra .5) so you get 1 more here | => 198 |
| 1 | => 199 |
| (0.5) | => 199 |
| --------- | --------- |
Hey! you got it wrong but close enough
Like godson said. How is half of 3.5 ever going to be 2.
And 12.5/2=6.5 huh?
It's definitely 197.
Calculation of 199 is definitely correct and I edited it to show you how it is correct.
Actually it is Geometric Progression with first term as 100 and common ratio as 1/2
and we are calculating the sum till 8th term
100 50 25 12.5 6.25 3.125 1.562 .78 (.78 is the 8th term and less than 1, so not good for calculation going ahead.)
But here the actual calculation took place like, not following the exact GP series.
100 + 50 + 25+ floor[25/2] + floor[13/2] + floor[7/2] + floor[4/2] + floor[2/2]
100 +50 +25+ 12 +6 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 199
It's good that limit was put into place. If one person had say 100 sMerit, they could merit themselves around 197 merits before they ran out of those merit as each merit is worth a half of the previous merit.
The power of merit farming LOL| --------- | --------- |
| 100 | => 100 |
| 50 | => 150 |
| 25 | => 175 |
| 12 (0.5) | => 187 |
| 6 (0.5) | => 193 |
| 3 (0.5) | => 196 |
| 2 | => 198 |
| 1 | => 199 |
| (0.5) | => 199 |
| --------- | --------- |
Hey! you got it wrong but close enough
Like godson said. How is half of 3.5 ever going to be 2.
And 12.5/2=6.5 huh?
It's definitely 197.
If I remember exactly, Theymos stated about this issue in the ANN topic of merit ystem, which has title "Merit system and new rank requirements".
Sorry, I have checked the topic, which has not mentioned about this. But I believe that I read it somewhere.
By the way, Theymos should add the basic information about the operational mechanism of merit system to the OP of the topic for newcomers.
Sorry, I have checked the topic, which has not mentioned about this. But I believe that I read it somewhere.
By the way, Theymos should add the basic information about the operational mechanism of merit system to the OP of the topic for newcomers.
It's good that limit was put into place. If one person had say 100 sMerit, they could merit themselves around 197 merits before they ran out of those merit as each merit is worth a half of the previous merit.
The power of merit farming LOL| --------- | --------- |
| 100 | => 100 |
| 50 | => 150 |
| 25 | => 175 |
| 12 (0.5) | => 187 |
| 6 (0.5) | => 193 |
| 3 (0.5) | => 196 |
| 2 | => 198 |
| 1 | => 199 |
| (0.5) | => 199 |
| --------- | --------- |
Hey! you got it wrong but close enough
If you are rounding up all the time you get 202. If you round down all the time you get 197. I think it rounds down but I'm not too sure. I think OP is right about 197.
It's good that limit was put into place. If one person had say 100 sMerit, they could merit themselves around 197 merits before they ran out of those merit as each merit is worth a half of the previous merit.
The power of merit farming LOL| --------- | --------- |
| 100 | => 100 |
| 50 | => 150 |
| 25 | => 175 |
| 12 (0.5) | => 187 |
| 6 (0.5) | => 193 |
| 3 (0.5) | => 196 |
| 2 | => 198 |
| 1 | => 199 |
| (0.5) | => 199 |
| --------- | --------- |
Hey! you got it wrong but close enough
If so, I think it would be better to change it.
It does not. Once you try the request it ends up showing...
The way some of the merit abusers are abusing merit, if it was possible, by now you would end up saying a->a thousands of times if not millions
Thanks OP, Actually I have that same question in my mind.
@mdayonliner , you are brave to test it , I never thought in my dreams to test this. If in case this is bug (you can give merit to yourself) the next thing I imagine a loads of red trust.
If so, I think it would be better to change it.
It does not. Once you try the request it ends up showing...The way some of the merit abusers are abusing merit, if it was possible, by now you would end up saying a->a thousands of times if not millions
It's good that limit was put into place. If one person had say 100 sMerit, they could merit themselves around 197 merits before they ran out of those merit as each merit is worth a half of the previous merit.
Before you open this thread you should have it to see whether it will work or have an evidence of who must have done such before.
Does Yahoo even screen people before allowing them to advertise his signature, literally have no idea what that bit means (I've seen quite a few users with that signature that post stuff that just doesn't seem to make sense to me).
Before you open this thread you should have it to see whether it will work or have an evidence of who must have done such before, but I can see that someone has already provided a very good answer to your question and am sure that will be okay with you.
This was tested from first minutes, it is a human stuff to reward yourself first before everyone else 
Please lock the topic since you already received the answer from mdayonliner.
Please lock the topic since you already received the answer from mdayonliner.
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1491
The first decentralized crypto betting platform
Ok, I haven't tried because I was thinking I could be negatively trusted or something.
If so, I think it would be better to change it.
It does not. Once you try the request it ends up showing...The way some of the merit abusers are abusing merit, if it was possible, by now you would end up saying a->a thousands of times if not millions
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1491
The first decentralized crypto betting platform
If so, I think it would be better to change it. I suppose this is not a big deal, because someone sending merit to himself would run out of merits soon and would also be negatively trusted. But I think it would be better if this wasn’t allowed.
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