Getting geared up for the mother of all frequency analysis programs, the hardware is on the way!

Going to add a timer to the head and tail of the program, calibrated for days. A few weeks of tweaking and testing then the giant program can be launched. Going to run the entire series of games at once, with each top 10 list of lists recorded to it's own .csv file.

The timer will record the time stamp of the program start and program end.

I always end my scripts the same way, printing out the elapsed time and the phrase "SoniQ BOOM!"

8 files of column lists will be small, smaller than even my current set of history files. The home network will enable upload and download via secure FTP, and monitoring the headless Pi via PuTTY.

Also included functionality to send me a text message when the run completes, as this should run for days if not weeks.

All of the code is optimized for the Pi device limitations, with dual recursion being what keeps the project within memory specs. Not that memory management in Python is as big of an issue as memory management in C or C++. I have even solved the screen buffer issue by just outputting what game is being analyzed and the current list, using the functionality of the print statement that can wipe and reuse the current line.

Excited for the big show, probably less so with the expected results. It is definitely about the journey more so than the destination on this run... 280 BILLION iterations of an algorithm of my design. The ultimate back test of the entire genre of replacement tables all at once.

It will be mildly disappointing when the first weeks of testing continue to output losing numbers, but the journey...