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Old 03-26-2006, 03:05 AM   #67 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by s_m_w_d
What is the point of the whole point system just to make it a bit more interesting?
It's to make the leaderboards fair. The pure number of WU's completed would not give an indication of folding power, since as Jan said, there are different sizes of WU.

The points awarded are calculated by using a benchmarking Linux machine before being release to the public, based on time-to-complete.
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