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The calculation itself is not too hard to get accurate after the fact. I have experimented with prediction methods and I got some wildly complicated methods that produced close results but not perfect. For instance one method involved att ^ 1.888 (boss attack to the power 1.888) divided by 16.3 or something. And in some miraculous way that was accurate on all levels except a few figures, but seemed to have a systematic deviation that suggested it was just not right. And for starters I doubt if Gree would actually use a complicated calculation method like that if they could have used something much simpler.

The troubel is you can never be sure about the exact value of the magic number because there is always a tolerance in it that produces the same  observed hit strength, so there are many methods of calculation that may appear to be right but wander off at some point.

I found a perfect way to calculate the Magic Number (See DecuGamers blog) based on the stats of the EB, but it only works above level 25 or so. And just when I was about to publish on it yesterday the new Boss comes with different stats on each level and different Magic Numbers in the lower levels. So I will have to check if my calculation works for this one also before I can publish.

In fact the magic number seems to follow my calculated value in some lower levels of Jack frost now. So I am '''Moderately Optimistic'.