Harry,
I can understand your response and calculations. I do not know
what I might have reported inaccurately. However, I do believe the
final %Returns reported were correctly reported! I did not calculate
the final % return!
The only thing I can guess is that I might have messed up a
digit on the "+/- Credits"! (too many or two few digits!) However,
all of the results reported were just taken off the final "Frugal
Screen Results" which shows "Hands Played", "Credits Bet", "Credits
Won", "+/- Credits" and "%Return". The % Return is the coins won or
lost divided by coins played x 100 and added or subracted from 100%.
I did not "mess up" this reported number! There was no question it
was 96.9763% for Jacks and 105.8163% for Deuces.
A shorter test shows Frugal software seems to do this
calculation, as you do, accurately. Again, the returns of 96.9763%
for JoB and the 105.8163 for FPDW, were taken directly from the
result screen and should be correct for "all coins" played.
Trust me, I did not sit and watch the computer play, but came
back hours later and just reported the results. I did not save the
final results, but as you stated, they should have been based upon
999,999,990 hands played and 4,999,999.950 coins bet. So I guess I
will have to do another run sometime when I expect to be away from
the computer for a number of hours. Next time I will print out the
results using Gadwin PrintScreen 2.5!
Thanks,
Bob
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@...>
wrote:
futrend wrote:
> With Frugal VP you can do runs using computer play. I set up a
9/6
> JoB and played the maximum games possible. I used the computer
play
> option for one billion hands (actually 10 hands short of that
total
> using the 10 play option) . No problem, just start the program
and
> come back later. Of course, the computer plays perfect (no
errors).
> The results are a negative 21,317,850 coins or a 96.9763%
return.
> There were over 25,000 Royals!
I'm not taking the time to take a look at FVP to confirm how data is
reported ... just looking at your reported figures.
Your total coin in (5*(10^9-10)) = 4,999,999,950. 21,317,850 coins
represents a 0.4264% loss, or a return of 99.5736%.
I'm not sure where your reported return was pulled from (FVP?), but
the actual return differs from game ER by under .03%.
> I also did a run using Full Pay Deuces Wild. The result of the
one
> billion hands is a gain of 41,007,020 coins or 105.8163%.
How about 100.820%, a difference from ER of under .06% (the higher
variance of DW playing out here).
Sounds like you've done something more than just misplaced a
decimal.
Must be the result of watching all those hands play out on the
screen 
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- H.