NationStates can't add.

by **Parzivai** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:11 am

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but when I went to go check on the leading causes of death, everything added up to 101%
Is that normal?
http://i.imgur.com/Yc9tIYc.png

by **Leutria** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:12 am

My understanding is that it's due to rounding.

by **Verbluffen III** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:13 am

XD

I think it sometimes does that....

by **The Alexanderians** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:14 am

If not rounding than probably a glitch or a bug. I wrote a program for a college C++ class and had similar results when I made a mistake in my arithmetic coding.

by **Nu Sparta** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:15 am

I would guess rounding because I only got 100% on mine

by **Diopolis** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:17 am

Pretty sure this goes in technical, and a low variance like one percent could easily be due to rounding.

by **Thafoo** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:44 pm

Instead of going over, mine goes under, it adds up to 99%.

by **Panageadom** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:50 am

Almost definitely rounding: try doing "round to even" before adding the number 93.4 + 6.2 + 0.4 ( = 100, or = 93 + 6 + 0 = 99)

by **Eaischpnaeieacgkque Bhcieaghpodsttditf** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:12 am

Leutria wrote:My understanding is that it's due to rounding.

That would be my guess.

NationStates can't add.

NationStates can't add.

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