On Sep 13, 2004, at 1:04 PM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> I don't know if there's a 'correct' or 'standard' way,

The weighted running average that has:

	avg = avg*(1-c) + (c*sample)

(where C is typically 1/8 or 1/16)

Is pretty standard.  It's used for calculating TCP Round Trip Times,
for instance...

BillW

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