On 3/17/09, Dale Sheldon <dales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My only fear is that the 0-99 range is so large that arbitrary decisions > each judge makes about how wide a distribution within that range to use will > all dramatically effect the final scores. > > > > Well, how about 0-9 then? That increases the chance of ties, but probably > not terribly. Really, anything that's bounded by zero at one end will be > fine; you don't have to limit it to integers either, but then some > smartypants will vote "square root of 7", and that makes all your math more > annoying. Single precision floats between in the range 0=<x<1 ! -- - |) () /\/ that "!" was on a different line to avoid any confustion about factorials. but since 1! = 1, I guess it doesn't really matter...