[tor-commits] [metrics-web/master] Clarify that we're rounding down user numbers.

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commit 2669b4d50985a25a51c17c63e2f4a7ce01e4078f
Author: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx>
Date:   Sun Jul 29 21:56:39 2018 +0200

    Clarify that we're rounding down user numbers.
    
    Technically, we're using integer truncation, but we're only using
    non-negative numbers as input, so we can as well pretend we're using
    the floor() function.
    
    Sort of resolves #26868 which is where this question came up.
---
 src/main/resources/web/jsps/reproducible-metrics.jsp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/resources/web/jsps/reproducible-metrics.jsp b/src/main/resources/web/jsps/reproducible-metrics.jsp
index f1b97f6..dc00751 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/web/jsps/reproducible-metrics.jsp
+++ b/src/main/resources/web/jsps/reproducible-metrics.jsp
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ This approach also works with <var>r(R)</var> being the sum of requests from <em
 
 <p>Estimate the number of clients per country and day using the following formula:</p>
 
-<pre>r(N) = r(R) / frac / 10</pre>
+<pre>r(N) = floor(r(R) / frac / 10)</pre>
 
 <p>A client that is connected 24/7 makes about 15 requests per day, but not all clients are connected 24/7, so we picked the number 10 for the average client. We simply divide directory requests by 10 and consider the result as the number of users. Another way of looking at it, is that we assume that each request represents a client that stays online for one tenth of a day, so 2 hours and 24 minutes.</p>
 <p>Skip dates where <var>frac</var> is smaller than 10% and hence too low for a robust estimate, or where <var>frac</var> is greater than 100%, which would indicate an issue in the previous step.</p>

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