Re: [Bug-gnubg] (no subject)

[Jim Segrave]

On Wed 16 Jul 2003 (12:39 +0200), olivier croisille wrote:
> From: address@hidden (Olivier)
> Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
> Subject: GNU 4 digit output
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> 
> I'm a long-time absolute fanatic of GNUBG ...  BUT ... is it just me
> or does any other user find this recently-added 4th digit to equity
> figures absolutely MEANINGLESS and confusing?
> 
> We are all used to 3 digits equities, and as far as I'm concerned,
> this makes it a lot tougher to have an instant vision of my errors'
> size, of cubing decisions, etc... Same applies to roll outs.

Rollout windows have used x.xxxx formats for a *long* time. The
analysis and hint windows, as well as the exports have used x.xxx for
a long time.

This means that you get milli-points per game/match equities in
everything but the rollout window, which seems in keeping with general
practice. Are you referring to some other output display?

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden