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piece-length finds the optimal piece length for a given number of bytes. Optimal for what exactly? BitTorrent. [VuzeWiki](http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Torrent_Piece_Size) and [TorrentFreak](http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-make-the-best-torrents-081121/) have bot
piece-length finds the optimal piece length for a given number of bytes. Optimal for what exactly? BitTorrent. VuzeWiki and TorrentFreak have both released some examples of ideal piece lengths, and this algorithm will reproduce them.
npm install piece-length
note: you may need to polyfill Math.log2
var optimum = require('piece-length')
// 350mb should be 256kb
optimum(367001600) // => 262144
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piece-length finds the optimal piece length for a given number of bytes. Optimal for what exactly? BitTorrent. [VuzeWiki](http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Torrent_Piece_Size) and [TorrentFreak](http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-make-the-best-torrents-081121/) have bot
We found that piece-length demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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