"In case anyone is worried about the new 10s update for pokemon scanning, I did some math. There's nothing to worry about, even if you bike."

#PokemonGO: I replied on /r/pokemongo to [this post](http://ift.tt/2ayJwvJ).I replied here with the comment text to follow. Just trying to get ahead of things, there's nothing to worry about.Your math isn't correct. You're looking at the intersect point between two circles of radius 70m that are 55m apart v. two similar circles that are only 27m apart.If you construct a right triangle where the adjacant side is your distance to the narrowest point between the two circles (halfway between the two update points) and your hypotenuse is 70m (detection range), then the arccos(27.5/70) is the angle to the left or right directly toward where your detection range is narrowest.70 * sin(arccos(27.5/70)) would then give you the distance directly to the left or right of your path of travel that is always detected by a bike rider traveling 5.5 m/s at 10s update intervals.70 * sin(arccos(27.5/70)) = 64.4m to the side- biker at 10s update misses 8% of pokemon within 70m70 * sin(arccos(13.75/70)) = 68.6m to the side-biker at 5s update misses 2% of pokemon70 * sin(arccos(10/70)) = 69.3m to the side-walker at 10s update misses 1% of pokemon70 * sin(arccos(5/70)) = 69.8m to the side-walker at 5s update misses 0.3% of pokemonBut...the biker according to this math is traveling 5.5x faster than the walker. 5.5x0.92/(0.997) = 5.075.The biker at 10s update is still finding pokemon more than five times faster than the walker pre-update! Stop freaking out! It's not a conspiracy! They probably did the math and realized it costs you almost nothing. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2aOVDG6