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voting percentage is strange

Story: SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 is availableTotal Replies: 3
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chris

Oct 28, 2004
4:29 PM EDT 		There are 4 votes, one is all negative, three are all positive. But the voting statistics show 76% positive instead. Where'd the extra 1% come from?
dave

Oct 29, 2004
3:18 AM EDT 		Good report. My script was rounding the numbers up and producing an extra percentage point. This is now fixed.

best, dave
Trevelyan

Oct 29, 2004
12:12 PM EDT 		developing a /. compatible scoring system. next step is to replace the actual number with: bad, poor, good, excellent. so people cant see the maths errors.
dave

Oct 29, 2004
12:17 PM EDT
Quoting:so people cant see the maths errors.


Now slashdot needs to replace mis-spelled words with images depicting what they are trying to say, and they'll be all set!!

(chuckling)

Dave

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