In Reply to: Re: The time delay... maybe posted by Hank on February 01, 2000 at 05:47:44:
: Yes. I'm totally fed up with people trying to guess or time the thing, that there may be a small random factor involved as well as a time delay.
Hank, why note quote the $$ and # of bills amounts in imprecise terms then? Something like "We now have 142,605 users who have entered 2.1 million bills, totalling $13.1 million worth of U.S. currency!" and then only update the thing every hour or so. If there is randomness in the figures, the precise number and dollar values are pretty meaningless anyway.
Hopefully someday we will get to the point where the George-o-Meter will simply read: "We now have MILLIONS of users who have entered BILLIONS of bills, totalling TRILLIONS worth of U.S. currency!"
...Lance