Target achieved: BurnMaxxer in a Palindrome Block [burnsteem100]
I don't know if it's possible to reliably target a transaction to execute in a specific block or not with sophisticated math & algorithms, but it definitely doesn't seem easy when using naïve assumptions.
Basically, from my network, the lag between starting a transfer and completing it can take anywhere from around 13 blocks to 24 (or more). Overall, if I start about 16 or 17 blocks before the target, I guess the odds are about 1 in 10 - give or take - to get the block I'm trying for. Despite the long odds, before work today I decided to start a script targeting the BurnMaxxer title on some unusual blocks.
I got one of them. It was a palindrome in block# 108,454,801. (A palindrome shows the same number when written frontwards or backwards.)
Out of 995 total BurnMaxxer titles over the blockchain's history, today was the first time that the @remlaps account won BurnMaxxer for a palindrome block number.
Does your account have the BurnMaxxer title on any rare types of blocks? Check Phoenix Prime to find out.
Crazy stuff 😂
I have a Happy Block (why is it happy?) but since you have so many of them it doesn’t seem to be too special 😉
0.00 SBD,
8.94 STEEM,
8.94 SP
I had never heard of Happy Numbers or Harshad Numbers. The AI picked them.
The Happy Numbers are happy because they eventually reach 1 if you repeatedly square the individual digits, add the squares together, and then repeat.
For example, yours is 69377915. If you square those digits and add the squares together, you get 331. Repeat the process, and you get [19, 82, 68, 100], then finally 1.
I don't know how rare they are, but they do seem to be fairly common. At the moment, it looks like about 584 of the next 4000 block numbers are Happy Numbers, so - roughly 1 in 7. I have no idea if they are clustered in certain ways, though. Eventually, I'll probably research that.