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On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Bill Powell wrote:

> In my own experience, material /always/ has to be repeated.
> Especially when you're first learning something, those
> "perfect" responses will turn real shaky if you wait three
> months before you look at the items again. I believe this is
> how Anki and Mnemosyne work, too.

The algorithm had two details that maybe we could make configurable:

  1. If the user's quality answer is <3, restart the OF-Matrix all
     over again, but using the current E-Factor.

  2. If the user's quality answer is >3, stop the repetition cycle.

We could make these numbers be min and max, and configurable, so that  
you could either always repeat, or only restart the OF-Matrix if it's  
below a lower number.

John