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Remove SQRT from accumulated difficulty #2380

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Remove SQRT from accumulated difficulty #2380

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@SWvheerden SWvheerden commented Oct 23, 2020 •
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Description

Remove the SQRT from the difficulty only using the squared results.

Motivation and Context

We remove the SQRT as this looses resolution due to rounding to u64.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Feature refactor (No new feature or functional changes, but performance or technical debt improvements)
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  • I'm merging against the development branch.
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  • I have squashed my commits into a single commit.
  • My change requires a change to the documentation.
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@SWvheerden SWvheerden changed the base branch from development to v0.6 October 23, 2020 15:06
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stringhandler approved these changes Oct 26, 2020
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base_layer/core/src/blocks/blockheader.rs
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ impl BlockHeader {
/// Calculates the total accumulated difficulty for the blockchain from the genesis block up until (and including)
/// this block.
pub fn total_accumulated_difficulty_inclusive_squared(&self) -> Result<u128, PowError> {
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This method can probably be removed entirely

@stringhandler stringhandler merged commit f041d9e into tari-project:v0.6 Oct 26, 2020
@SWvheerden SWvheerden changed the title remove sqrt from accumulated difficulty Remove SQRT from accumulated difficulty Oct 26, 2020
@SWvheerden SWvheerden deleted the sw_change_accumulated_dif branch November 26, 2020 13:19
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