On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:23:09PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:27:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:24:00AM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
>
> > INMNSO the default precision for the "*Rate" parameters and
> > maybe for the "Compress" parameter also, should be changed
> > to "0". As in:
> >
> > - { "TapeRate", 1, 6, 1, 0, "%*.*f", "KB/s" },
> > + { "TapeRate", 1, 6, 0, 0, "%*.*f", "KB/s" },
> >
> > Does anyone really care if the rate was 1231.3 or 1231.4 KB/s?
> > Not only does a percision of zero get rid of the useless digit,
> > also the decimal point is eliminated. Thus two character
> > positions are gained.
>
> I agree with you when the difference is between 1234.3 and 1234.4.
> OTOH, a difference between 0.1 and 0.9 is of much more interest.
>
Really? If you are reading a column of taping or dumping rates?
I'd equate each to ZERO and look for what was wrong.
Similarly for compressibility, I doubt I'd care if it was 0.1 or
0.9%. I forget which way the column reports, but one way it says
not compressible, the other says immensely compressible. The
fine degree of "not" or "immense" would not matter to me.
BTW that is why I manually make the above change. :)
> A better way (IMHO) would be do automatically adjust the value
> to 2..4 digits, strip off the dot and append the unit. With this,
> 1234567 would become 1234k, 123456 would become 123k and 12345678
> would become 12M. Please check the kb() subroutine in the amandatape
> program to see what I mean. I find this a good compromise because
> the witdh is always between 3..5 characters and the error is always
> below 10%.
You are talking about the size columns. They are not reported with
a decimal number even though the values are floats. Only the rates
and compressibility are reported with fractional numbers. These
don't have a big range of values in a single report. Certainly not
like the sizes which easily might be from 0 (or 32KB) to multi-GB
in magnitude.
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