On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:15:20PM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
saying that the port range is exponential
doesn't pin it down very much.
it still requires the host to make decisions about precisely what kind
of exponential curve to use for the range, and it may get it wrong.
It does pin it down completely. Given the endpoint values there is only
one exponential curve, and it's simple enough to compute in both
directions.
note: the hint didn't say "exponential". it said "logarithmic".