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Fix osrank formula #5

Closed MeBrei closed 5 years ago

MeBrei commented 5 years ago

In the white paper as in most other sources, ε is defined as the probability that the random walk continues. In the Incremental PageRank paper where I believe the formula that I changed is taken from, the definition is the other way around. There the rank is defined as W_x * ε / nR which has to be translated into W_x * (1-ε) / nR for osrank.

See also https://github.com/oscoin/osrank-rs/pull/14