On 2014/09/25 19:32, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
RSmith wrote:
the time of finishing does not determine position alone, there are
bonuses and penalties which doesn't stack up to integer values, but is
measurable [...]  Without going into too much detail about how bonuses
and penalties are calculated
How can anybody help you without these details?

Because this is not the problem I needed help with, this one I can do but merely mentioned it to demonstrate to Mr. Lowden why I would need a seemingly unnatural ordering. The help I needed was already provided / added to by various people, for which I am very thankful.

And from JKL:

You make valid (if obvious) points, but...

Measurable means "is a number", right?  So we have math, and IEEE
floating point. Yay! We can compute the answer!

No, measurable means that we understand the relative value of an advantage or 
disadvantage even if it does not necessarily compute into a single number 
because it might be subjective or multiplexed. Did you have orange juice or 
grapefruit juice for breakfast? Which scored higher? That depends whether you 
are rating taste or healthiness - and those are by far not the only possible 
ratings.

The exercise to make it map to a number is however a possible one, if not a 
very easy one, and I will (as mentioned before) be considering that solution if 
this order mechanism turns out to be too costly - Thank you kindly.




_______________________________________________
sqlite-users mailing list
sqlite-users@sqlite.org
http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Reply via email to