we got all of our China dishes last night. now all we need is fleish and silverware for both, linenes, towels, etc... and serving pieces for the China.
2. 'Dani Weiss' posted on the Fri 30 Apr 2004, 7:31 pm well, in an imperfect world such as ours, where 19 and 100 are not the best numbers to play divide with, and when you have a system that doesn't use fractions... it's hard to get a poll to add up to %100. start paying attention to more polls, or take stats, or a research class thyat discusses surveys or pecentages. they often add up to somwhere between 98 and 102... closer to the 100 range being more common, of course, but mathematically, it would be impossible to use whole numbers and have the resuts to a perfect %100 every time. as proved by our case: 100 divided by 19 equals 5.26315789473684210526315789473684, nearest i can get. my blog doesn't have space for all that. so the one vote for him that should have regiterted as %5.26315789473684210526315789473684 came up as 5, while the 6 votes that should have registered as 31.5789473684210526315789473664211 came up as 32. 31.5789473684210526315789473664211 times 3 = 94.7368421052631578947368421052632. 94.7368421052631578947368421052632 plus 05.26315789473684210526315789473684 = 100.00000000000000000000000000000004
(i hope you'll forgive the variance. that was really the best i could do on such short notice.)
3. 'A visitor' posted on the Mon 3 May 2004, 10:24 pm i guess you have a point. i've tried to wrestle with floating-point decimals in javascript before and it gets mean. why couldn't you vote a second time and make it 20? oh and the system most certainly can use fractions. ever hear of the "modulus" operator, symbol "%" (how apropos)? it returns a remainder. for example, 5%3=2. so if one were to have the browser assign the remainder to a variable, concatenate it as a string to a backslash, and concatenate that to another variable in which the total number of votes had been stored, this homemade "fraction" could be displayed alongside the integer, of course using "lowest integer" instead of "greatest integer." this of course would all have to be in an if-then-else statement so that when the remainder equaled zero it would just display the integer. now mind you i stink at most programming, but i can speak fluent pseudocode. this was an interesting way to procrastinate making progress on my lab report, the books for which are stinking up my room! tali
4. 'A visitor' posted on the Mon 3 May 2004, 11:52 pm i don't have programming rights for a poll. really i can just do cool HTML things when i post; it's a limitation of blog-city but a very welcome one. dani
5. 'A visitor' posted on the Tue 4 May 2004, 8:06 pm i know, i know, i was just saying. anyway, sara tova asked me when your wedding was and i told her. i don't know if that means she's planning to be here for it. tali
1. 'A visitor' posted on the Fri 30 Apr 2004, 6:37 pm
ReplyDeletethe poll lists that the breakdown is 5%/32%/32%/32%, but that adds up to 101%.
a spectator
2. 'Dani Weiss' posted on the Fri 30 Apr 2004, 7:31 pm
ReplyDeletewell, in an imperfect world such as ours, where 19 and 100 are not the best numbers to play divide with, and when you have a system that doesn't use fractions... it's hard to get a poll to add up to %100.
start paying attention to more polls, or take stats, or a research class thyat discusses surveys or pecentages. they often add up to somwhere between 98 and 102... closer to the 100 range being more common, of course, but mathematically, it would be impossible to use whole numbers and have the resuts to a perfect %100 every time.
as proved by our case:
100 divided by 19 equals 5.26315789473684210526315789473684, nearest i can get.
my blog doesn't have space for all that. so the one vote for him that should have regiterted as %5.26315789473684210526315789473684 came up as 5, while the 6 votes that should have registered as 31.5789473684210526315789473664211 came up as 32.
31.5789473684210526315789473664211 times 3 = 94.7368421052631578947368421052632. 94.7368421052631578947368421052632 plus 05.26315789473684210526315789473684 =
100.00000000000000000000000000000004
(i hope you'll forgive the variance. that was really the best i could do on such short notice.)
3. 'A visitor' posted on the Mon 3 May 2004, 10:24 pm
ReplyDeletei guess you have a point. i've tried to wrestle with floating-point decimals in javascript before and it gets mean. why couldn't you vote a second time and make it 20?
oh and the system most certainly can use fractions. ever hear of the "modulus" operator, symbol "%" (how apropos)? it returns a remainder. for example, 5%3=2. so if one were to have the browser assign the remainder to a variable, concatenate it as a string to a backslash, and concatenate that to another variable in which the total number of votes had been stored, this homemade "fraction" could be displayed alongside the integer, of course using "lowest integer" instead of "greatest integer." this of course would all have to be in an if-then-else statement so that when the remainder equaled zero it would just display the integer.
now mind you i stink at most programming, but i can speak fluent pseudocode. this was an interesting way to procrastinate making progress on my lab report, the books for which are stinking up my room!
tali
4. 'A visitor' posted on the Mon 3 May 2004, 11:52 pm
ReplyDeletei don't have programming rights for a poll. really i can just do cool HTML things when i post; it's a limitation of blog-city but a very welcome one.
dani
5. 'A visitor' posted on the Tue 4 May 2004, 8:06 pm
ReplyDeletei know, i know, i was just saying.
anyway, sara tova asked me when your wedding was and i told her. i don't know if that means she's planning to be here for it.
tali