[Arianne-bugs] [ arianne-Bugs-2550664 ] website: scientific notation for probablities looks ugly

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Bugs item #2550664, was opened at 2009-01-30 23:36
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Category: Website
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Laguz (mkvii)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: website: scientific notation for probablities looks ugly

Initial Comment:
I looked at the "Creatures" in Game System at the Stendhal-Homepage and found this at giant kobold creature drops:

Probability: 5.0E-4%

I wondered what that could be. I think it would look much more nice in decimal.

Beside that, i made a comment at the thread "[ 2155384 ] Half-PK marked", i didnt realized that is was already closed, but it is still a bug.

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Comment By: Katie Russell (kymara)
Date: 2009-03-11 14:09

Message:
php is doing it automatically. my proposed fix is something like

function formatNumber($amount) {
  if($amount<0.0001) {
    return number_format($amount, 6, '.', '');
  } else {
  	return $amount;
  }
}


but it doesn't work.

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Comment By: Astrid Sawatzky (astridemma)
Date: 2009-02-22 14:40

Message:
i think scientific notation is much harder to read for those poor people
not addicted to math :-)

(i am addicted btw)

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-02-07 16:30

Message:
well all the others are in dec. so y wouldent this one be. it not that hard
to read just dif than the others :) 

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-02-06 04:11

Message:
i say leave scientific notation for scientist
average user may be lost, i personally never use"E" notation only 10^...
so i wast lost too :)


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Comment By: Katie Russell (kymara)
Date: 2009-02-06 03:41

Message:
that means 5 x 10^(-4), it's known as scientific notation. It is 0.0005. I
think it's a matter of personal taste what you find easier to understand.
Personally for me when numbers get so small I find it easier to read
scientific notation. What does anyone else think?

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