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10% = 0.100000001 30% = 0.300000012 60% = 0.600000024 80% = 0.800000012
Even when I set the console command @ a certain value it returns back to those values.
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Even when I set the console command @ a certain value it returns back to those values.
Prove of concept
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function setprec(n, p)
return math.floor(n*10^p)/10^p
end
print(setprec(tonumber(game("mp_kickpercent")), 2))
read it
EDIT: Nevermind FlooD's link explains it pretty well.
See Steele & Guy's paper - http://pic.plover.com/p372-steele.pdf
As you can see, certain numbers have larger error margins than those that can be correctly compensated for by the DRAGON or one of its derivative algorithms, so they return imprecise results.
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