math error, freecell

[xzimppledink]

it's not often we see mathematical error but during those long video editing of "building peaks" and downloading digital tape I spend a lot of time playing freecell. played 367 games and won 366 for 99.72752% and it's rated at only 99%. In mathematics anything over 99.5% would be rounded up to 100%. Microsoft, fix it!

 

[TrainTrackHack]

lol

It's a very common practice in software to floor rather than round percentages. It could be because it's more "honest" - 100% implies everything, yet you are one game short. Likewise for indicating progress - it would be a bit of a "cheat" to indicate the progress being .5% ahead of what it really is and would mean that 100% completion means there is still something to be done.

(okay, okay, I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure programmers just coerce floats into ints instead of properly rounding because it's more convenient and most languages floor on such coercions).

 

[tech explorer]

lol

It's a very common practice in software to floor rather than round percentages. It could be because it's more "honest" - 100% implies everything, yet you are one game short. Likewise for indicating progress - it would be a bit of a "cheat" to indicate the progress being .5% ahead of what it really is and would mean that 100% completion means there is still something to be done.

(okay, okay, I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure programmers just coerce floats into ints instead of properly rounding because it's more convenient and most languages floor on such coercions).

I'm in agreement with hackapelite although here I'm talking about rounding down to the nearest minute. When I'm downloading vids, it may say 29 minutes when I actually may get 29 minutes and 54 seconds. Getting back to the percentage, you're talking about less than 1% difference which normally doesn't mean much.