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> If a work unit performs no calculations, how can it claim any credit if no
> work is performed - even if it is 0.00?
>
> If such a work unit, that claims 0.00 credit then is the lowest credit
> claimed, will it always pre-empt work units where calculations actually took
> place?

The validator will compare all successful results, and first pair to have good enough match is considered valid.

I admit that the validator should be more intelligent; that is, it should validate the pair having the best correspondence with some reasonable CPU time.

Markku Degerholm
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