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The T 
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 Topic: Rounding
Posted: November 29 2006 at 22:23 |
There's no need to round.... You americans and british should adopt the metric system and peace will come even to Irak and Korea and everything else....
But I see this has nothing to do with the metric system.... Ok, bad cheap piece of system-advertisement....
Let's add quarter points to our star ratings:
1,1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, etc....
That would be good for people like me who don't know how to rate albums as ELP's Brain Salad Surgery... 1 for not rock or 5 for a genre of its own -prog-.... I would do the math and it would come at 2.5
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cuncuna
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Posted: November 29 2006 at 22:17 |
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Oh, yes, I'm rounding... must stop eating crostini and pancakes and quiché at some point.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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rileydog22
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 18:43 |
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DallasBrian rounds 3.5 to 1.
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jalas
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 12:15 |
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What happened to three as a choices?
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JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY!
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Neil
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 11:35 |
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Well 0 is round (sort of)
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Vompatti
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 11:32 |
You're all wrong. It rounds to 0! 
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Angplags
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 10:36 |
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Arghhhhhh!!!!
If we are rounding at all, surely we should round to WHOLE NUMBERS??? 3.49 only rounds to 3.5 if you are rounding 2 significant figures.
GAH!!!!!!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 10:19 |
 Freak wrote:
I'm guessing it's a response to all the reviews listed at 3 stars, when right afterwards it says "3.5 stars really." Slarti says the review should round up to 4 (nice nickname, by the way). |
I guess I am the culprit here  
Actually I really think that this 3,5 is really 3,5 but if I give this rating, it is mostly because of the defition of the star rating and the notion of what is essential
3 is good but non-essential >> self explanatory >> you do not need it really, but it is nice to have (but generally I make compilations of 3* and get rid of them)
3.5 is not yet essential to me. It certainly means better than good >> very good, can even sometimes mean excellent , but it is not really the best ones around from the artistes. so you could own first the other higher rated albums well before getting this one
4 is definitely essential and can be very good or excellent, but it is essential in terms of the music's importance (historical or inside the group's discography)
BTW
Rouding off
below 3.25 is 3.0
above 3.25 until 3.75 is 3.5
above 3.75 is 4.0
Edited by Sean Trane - November 28 2006 at 11:17
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Neil
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 10:03 |
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 09:58 |
3,1 to 3,4 is rounded to 3,5. 3,5 to 3,9 is rounded to 4,0 So my answer is 4, how hard can it be!? 
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Neil
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 09:56 |
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Neil
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 09:55 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Sorry, still rounds to 4. Please try 3.4 or 3.44.  |
It doesn't. As soon as you go below3.5 you round down.
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 09:55 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Sorry, still rounds to 4. Please try 3.4 or 3.44. |
No it doesn't. It depends on how many digits you use in the process of rounding. Depending on that, 3.49 either rounds to 3 or 3.5.
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Philéas
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 09:52 |
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4. Always.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 21:18 |
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Yeah, it's a hard one to get as a username in most places on the internet - already taken.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Arrrghus
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 21:14 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 21:13 |
Sorry, still rounds to 4. Please try 3.4 or 3.44.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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CaptainWafflos
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 20:33 |
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Would you prefer that people say 3.49999...?
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Freak
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 20:23 |
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I'm guessing it's a response to all the reviews listed at 3 stars, when right afterwards it says "3.5 stars really." Slarti says the review should round up to 4 (nice nickname, by the way).
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johnobvious
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Posted: November 27 2006 at 20:11 |
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I assume that how this is a Prog Poll will be explained at some juncture?
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Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
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