just pondering
2007-03-27 22:27:50 · 14 answers · asked by maraesa1000 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
and i know nobodys does
2007-03-27 22:31:29 · update #1
I'm keeping the missing 1% all to myself. I've hidden it in a box under my bed, but don't tell anyone.
2007-03-27 23:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never noticed until now! Thats completely rubbish of Yahoo. If they can manage a vast site, why can't they sort out a few rounding errors?? I don' understand why they can just make one the function of the other. So if one is 33.33333%, why don't they make the other the result of 100 less the first column?
2007-03-27 22:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by beanie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there are only two statistics, they will.
If there are three or more, you'll almost always "lose" at least 1% because anyhting under .5 gets rounded down....
So, 1/3 = 33.3333......% which rounds to 33%
so unless two stats are EXACTLY .5% in the decimals, they'll round down to 99% total, if there's more than two statistics.
add more statistics, and you can get further "round down" errors.
2007-03-27 22:35:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rounding errors and some basic programming mistakes.
2007-03-27 22:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I guess they're not too good at maths at Yahoo. I've wondered about the same thing.
2007-03-27 23:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Math is not the hamsters strong point honey....but close enough......I still wonder why they didnt pick an artichoke for a mascot!!!!!
2007-03-27 22:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's based on how many you've answered and how many B.A! you've recieved already then they work it out on a percentage basis .Very hard to explain !
2007-03-27 22:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by Scary Mary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wondered that too, what happened to the missing 1%???
2007-03-27 22:38:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was just thinking the same thing. Get out of my head!
2007-03-27 22:32:02 · answer #9 · answered by Neev 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the rounding
2007-03-27 22:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by Angel Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋