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Satoshi Nakamoto's C code from the Bitcoin whitepaper for determining an attacker on the network's probability of success
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#include "math.h" | |
#include "stdio.h" | |
double AttackerSuccessProbability(double q, int z) | |
{ | |
double p = 1.0 - q; | |
double lambda = z * (q / p); | |
double sum = 1.0; | |
int i; | |
int k; | |
for (k = 0; k <= z; k++) | |
{ | |
double poisson = exp(-lambda); | |
for (i = 1; i <= k; i++) | |
poisson *= lambda / i; | |
sum -= poisson * (1 - pow(q / p, z - k)); | |
} | |
return sum; | |
} | |
int main() | |
{ | |
double ans = AttackerSuccessProbability(0.1, 1); | |
printf("'%f'", ans); | |
} |
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