Does acquiring only 200 reps in a day from only votes count toward Epic/Legendary?

Question

Let's say that yesterday's numbers according to the reputation audit is:

days represented D
rep cap was reached on R days
rep cap was exceeded on E days

I earned only and exactly 200 reputation points yesterday through only upvotes, no bonuses. Some upvotes were subject to the cap and scored [0] in the audit.

Today's numbers are:

days represented D+1
rep cap was reached on R+1 days
rep cap was exceeded on E days

Note that the number for exceeded stayed the same. This seems to "make sense", of course, because 200 does not exceed the rep cap, it merely reaches it.

Perhaps it's my fault not to work harder for that one acceptance, but I'm just wondering if someone can confirm for me that as far as {Legendary} is concerned, yesterday was wasted.

Related questions

• How is it possible to exceed the rep cap without reaching it?

Jeff Atwood says: did you reach 200 rep from PURE UPVOTES? That's reached. Did you reach 200 or more rep from upvotes + accepts? That's exceeded. Neither calculation includes bounties. [current Epic/Legendary badge calculation] is based on exceeded, though the description is mildly incorrect and would lead you to believe it is based on reached.

So the way I understood the above quote is the following:

• 19 upvotes, 1 acceptance = 205: exceeded but not reached
• 20 upvotes, 0 acceptance = 200; reached (exceeded???)
• 21 upvotes, 0 acceptance = 200; reached (exceeded???)
• {Legendary} looks only at exceeded

So my question is essentially asking for a confirmation on the latter two bullet points: does scoring 200 and only 200 from upvotes count as exceeded or not, and does it matter whether or not you have [0]-scoring capped votes?

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Addendum

If it's true that you also need at least one acceptance, what happens if later that acceptance is retracted? Is that day wasted as well as far as {Legendary} is concerned?

And if so, what would be a better strategy to guarantee that no day is wasted and every day counts? Does the (+2) from accepting a question you ask count toward exceeding?

Answer 1

Some time since this post was written back in 2010, the rules changed. As explained in this post, scoring 200 exactly is now enough (and can be even if you paid reputation to downvote).

Answer 2

I've just checked my rep report and it says that I have exceeded the cap on 20 days, which is the number used for the Epic & Legendary badges. However, looking for days where I have got 200 or more there are 21.

The discrepancy is one day where I got exactly 200:

-- 2009-04-22 rep +200 = 1128

While getting 200 seems to trigger the Mortarboard, it seems to count it as strictly greater than 200 for the Epic and Legendary badges.

NOTE I'm not complaining, as the number of days that I exceed the rep cap is growing at a such a slow rate "missing" one or two isn't really going to make much difference.