its a cost function, In that case: cost = 2.828^(2*(bits/512)) It didn't "square the cost", it doubled the number of bits to find the cost, I just skipped a l

its a cost function, In that case: cost = 2.828^(2*(bits/512)) It didn't "square the cost", it doubled the number of bits to find the cost, I just skipped a load of the math.