When there's more information, checkable claims and verifiable figures on a beer forum than can be readily found in the public arena, then then things are coming to a pretty pass. I'm a bit confused by these "cycles" and why tests should be valid up to 24 cycles and then wildly inaccurate on the 25th.
It’s basically like this:
https://www.dnasoftware.com/amplification-efficiency-is-not-exponential/