Sig. fig. anomaly in acceleration times
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:50 am
I noticed something very strange when I was looking at the statistics of cars in the BRC 1955 competition: unlike most stats (which seem to be calculated very precisely) there only seems to be a couple decimal places that vary for the acceleration times. The ["HundredTime"] value in the trim .lua file for all the cars in the competition were either x.xx49999999999 or x.xx49999999998, and looking at other trim .luas I have on my hard drive, the only exceptions to this are cars that have x.xx5 or x.xx99999999999 as the values.
Is this intended behavior? Is this a bug? Is this a side effect of rounding the actual calculation off for display on screen? I'm confused.
Is this intended behavior? Is this a bug? Is this a side effect of rounding the actual calculation off for display on screen? I'm confused.