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More digits in scoring?

Post by dwchang » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:15 pm

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.
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Post by Arigatomina » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:25 pm

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. ^.^

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Post by Otohiko » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:26 pm

How about having that many digits displayed on the 'Edit Videos' page, but stick to just two decimal places elsewhere?
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Post by angelx03 » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:29 pm

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Post by trythil » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:30 pm

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. ^.^
Oh, sure, you retain accuracy, but you destroy precision by mutilating the representation. Which is what this is all about.

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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Post by Kalium » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:32 pm

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.
I think you just volunteered to code it.

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Post by dwchang » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:35 pm

angelx03 wrote:So I wasn't going crazy.

*sigh*

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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 ;).
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Post by trythil » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:36 pm

Kalium wrote:
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.
I think you just volunteered to code it.
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.

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Post by trythil » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:37 pm

dwchang wrote: 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 ;).
NO!

It's NOT accuracy! It's precision! There's a difference!

Jeez, you're an engineer and even you messed up :evil:

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Post by Arigatomina » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:47 pm

trythil wrote:Oh, sure, you retain accuracy, but you destroy precision by mutilating the representation. Which is what this is all about.
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. ;p

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.

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