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Unless they've changed the code, there are some manually adjusted values that estimate the average donation rate based on some magic number they plugged in from
by newhouseb 14y ago
Unless they've changed the code, there are some manually adjusted values that estimate the average donation rate based on some magic number they plugged in from their own projections (/propaganda if you think this was intentionally misleading).
val1 = 44000;
val2 = 70000;
maxVal = 100000;
deltav = val2 - val1;
vchange = deltav / deltat;
if (now < t1 && val1 == '0')
val = val1;
else
val = Math.floor((now - t1) * vchange) + val1;
If I had to guess, val1 was how many committed donations they had at 11am April 24th and val2 is how much they anticipated raising in the following 13 hours of April 24th. Note that Santorum suspended his campaign April 10th, so it looks like someone probably was updating this manually until the campaign was fully disbanded.