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Former Member
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How about showing a few less decimal places in the statistics? Of course, not real high priority, but carrying things to five decimal places seems ..... well, embarrassing.
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Former Member
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If that is the most important problem that you have found so far then life is really sweet on this forum.....
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Right. That's why I didn't mention it last November.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
There are 5 zeros? Where?
(Yes, I do live under a rock... a protein crunching rock to be exact...  ) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Here are the 5 decimal places. Not important but . . . excessive.
Global Statistics Averages: *** *** Points Per Hour of Run Time 25.06467 Points Per Calendar Day 9,314,520.78964 Points Per Result 249.54310 Results Per Calendar Day 37,326.30097 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
is a little over the top one thinks, maybe only 2 d.p. is needed - if any
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gordoma
Veteran Cruncher Windsor, UK Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 729 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hmmm! Maybe for the big hitters it may not be so useful, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who only submit a result now and again? Perhaps they need the decimals to follow that?
----------------------------------------Although as you say, if they need to follow it to the 100,000th of a result per hour then you might wonder whether the data they are contributing is really valid any more (making assumption about WU timeouts there)? |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I thought that was a compromise.
----------------------------------------retsof Avg. Results Per Calendar Day 1.66667   The google calculator routinely gives you eight places. I just got here to WCG. Lessee. 5 results in 3 days... 5 / 3 = 1.66666667 http://calculator.com is 16 places for several supplied calculators. 5 / 3 = 1.6666666666666667 http://www.math.com/students/calculators/calculators.html standard calculator gives 16 places and their scientific calculator gives 14 places. What's scientific about that? The Bible gives 0 places. In an implied calculation of pi, a circular well 10 cubits across was 30 cubits in circumference. 1 Kings 7:23 ‘And he [Hiram on behalf of King Solomon] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.’ In the 1950s, Friden calculators had 20 positions available in the answer, and you moved the little decimal points by hand. http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/fridenstw.html It gets worse. Another calculator company had a patent on "single key divide", so not to interfere, Friden's lawyers decided that the users would have to press 2 keys to do a division.
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----------------------------------------Work+GPU i7 8700 12threads School i7 4770 8threads Default+GPU Ryzen 7 3700X 16threads Ryzen 7 3800X 16 threads Ryzen 9 3900X 24threads Home i7 3540M 4threads50% [Edit 13 times, last edit by retsof at Aug 3, 2005 12:31:18 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
On the same issue of decimals, could you please unify the format of presentation of data between the global statistics, user statistics and team statistics.
Take a look for example at this: Detailed Statistics (my stats) Statistics Last Updated: 08/09/2005 06:06:02 (UTC) [0 hour(s) ago] Totals: Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 0:189:14:36:17 (#6 069) Points Generated (Rank) 114 140 (#6 200) Results Returned (Rank) 646 (#3 729) Averages: Avg. Run Time Per Calendar Day (y:d:h:m:s) 0:001:15:34:14 Avg. Run Time Per Result (y:d:h:m:s) 0:000:07:02:39 Avg. Points Per Hour of Run Time 25,08238 Avg. Points Per Calendar Day 992,52174 Avg. Points Per Result 176,68731 Avg. Results Per Calendar Day 5,61739 and compare it to this: Global Statistics Statistics Last Updated: 08/09/2005 06:06:02 (UTC) [0 hour(s) ago] Totals: Members 79,747 Devices 128,015 Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 13,925:272:11:49:36 Points Generated 3,061,869,129 Results Returned 12,398,540 Averages: Run Time Per Calendar Day (y:d:h:m:s) 42:357:22:55:31 Run Time Per Result (y:d:h:m:s) 0:000:09:50:20 Points Per Hour of Run Time 25.09944 Points Per Calendar Day 9,450,213.36111 Points Per Result 246.95401 Results Per Calendar Day 38,267.09877 In the first set of data (my stats), a comma depicts a decimal point, while in the global stats a comma shows a breaker (every one thousand). In the second case we have spaces as delimiters for the thousand units (my stats), while in the global stats we have commas to do the same job. Can you have this unified across the board, even though different teams may be working on the actual programing of the different pages? IBM - howsaboutsomestandardscompliance |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello RobSab,
Very interesting. This is a 'localization' issue. My statistics all show up using the same default rules. Your statistics are showing up with 'my stats' using local conventions while global statistics are using a default. I remember that the statistics pages are put out on Akamai four times a day, but I do not know the details. Every post in Suggestions / Feedback is read by the WCG, so I will not make a special post about this. This is the second post in the forum on this subject. Some months back, a new member only read a bunch of small boxes where the statistics were supposed to be. Good catch, RobSab! mycrofth |
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