Sorry. You'd have to read the original post to fully understand how the dataset was arrived at.

I'm not going to repeat all the details from that original post, but Y-axis represents UserLevel in an RPG; the X-axis is a timebase covering several years, plotted in reverse chronological order. The dip after the peak is due to a computer crash and the restoration of backup several months old.

All of which should tell you that there is no mathematical formula that will fit the dataset. It is simply a set of numbers that increase from 0 to some peak, drop instantly to a lower level (and then possibly increase slightly again). That, and that there are multiple (hundreds) of consecutive timebase values at each userlevel value, is all that can be said, or needs to be, to describe the problem.

Which is simply to discover the where the peak value is, and what it is. And how to most efficiently arrive at that information.

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In reply to Re^4: A different kind of search algorithm? by BrowserUk
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