More digits in scoring?
- dwchang
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More digits in scoring?
I just recently noticed our scores now have four numerals after the decimal. I imagine this is to make things more accurate, but from an aesthetic standpoint, I don't like it.
Honestly, I don't have a reason beyond "it looks ugly," but regardless...a site suggestion. Please put it back to the original way with two numerals after the decimal. It looks a lot cleaner and easier to read imo.
Honestly, I don't have a reason beyond "it looks ugly," but regardless...a site suggestion. Please put it back to the original way with two numerals after the decimal. It looks a lot cleaner and easier to read imo.
-Daniel
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Oh, sure, you retain accuracy, but you destroy precision by mutilating the representation. Which is what this is all about.Arigatomyna wrote:I thought it was a new bug. ^_^;
But if it's intentional, you can always keep it that accurate - to the third decimal place - but only *show* the first two on the site. That way you get accuracy and clean looking numbers. ^.^
I vote for user-configurable precision. That way, the <strike>unhealthily numerically obsessed</strike> numerically inclined can keep their double-busting precision, whereas the rest of us can choose a sane level of precision. Like, say, zero digits.
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I think you just volunteered to code it.trythil wrote:I vote for user-configurable precision. That way, the <strike>unhealthily numerically obsessed</strike> numerically inclined can keep their double-busting precision, whereas the rest of us can choose a sane level of precision. Like, say, zero digits.
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No you're still crazy, but not because of this

But yeah, I can definitely understand accuracy, but I'm sure there's a sweetspot for accuracy and aesthetics for most of us.
I just personally thought it was 2 digits

-Daniel
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If it works the way I think it does, it'd be a matter of slamming the column type out to DECIMAL(HOLY_SHIT_BIG_NUMBER, HOLY_SHIT_BIG_NUMBER - 2), and then doing rounding in the script or SQL statement.Kalium wrote:I think you just volunteered to code it.trythil wrote:I vote for user-configurable precision. That way, the <strike>unhealthily numerically obsessed</strike> numerically inclined can keep their double-busting precision, whereas the rest of us can choose a sane level of precision. Like, say, zero digits.
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I see. I thought it was an extra number to arrange videos on the top 10 list - so those 'equal' on the two decimal system can be accurately ordered by something other than the first letter in the title. ;ptrythil wrote:Oh, sure, you retain accuracy, but you destroy precision by mutilating the representation. Which is what this is all about.
In that case it doesn't need to be on the member pages since we don't get the 'adjusted score' used in the top 10 anyway.