Kabam Math Changes Math Re: Angry Girl
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So here I am pumping stones into Angry Girl and I tap out at 120 where she needs 2.08 buffs for the unstoppable and stun immunity ... and in the fine print it says (rounded up) ... cool no problem .. it's been a while since I did math but I still remember If you're rounding to a whole number, decimals from 0.1 to 0.4 round down and decimals from 0.5 to 0.9 round up. i should be safe at needing just 2 buffs because you can't round up from 2.08 .. i can work with that.
Go in for some testing and POW to the face from Juggernaut with 2 pierce buffs .. I go back to check the numbers .. yep 2.08 so math is math is all forms right??? LOL nope. Angry Girl still needs 3 buffs with a sig that says 2.08. Kabam Math.
Go back say to myself .. ok maybe the 8 is making the game think it's actually 2.8 instead of 2.08 so I scrounge up five more stones to get it needing 2.01 ... go back in to test ... SMACK lol .. even 2.01 is rounded up to 3 for some strange reason.
Surely this is a bug?? Or should I just settle in on it being Kabam Math?
Go in for some testing and POW to the face from Juggernaut with 2 pierce buffs .. I go back to check the numbers .. yep 2.08 so math is math is all forms right??? LOL nope. Angry Girl still needs 3 buffs with a sig that says 2.08. Kabam Math.
Go back say to myself .. ok maybe the 8 is making the game think it's actually 2.8 instead of 2.08 so I scrounge up five more stones to get it needing 2.01 ... go back in to test ... SMACK lol .. even 2.01 is rounded up to 3 for some strange reason.
Surely this is a bug?? Or should I just settle in on it being Kabam Math?
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This is not to be confused with rounding down which 2.9 would be 2
Nor should it be confused with normal rounding which is 2-2.5 goes to 2 and 2.5-3 goes to 3.
The math is fine, it is known as a ceiling round and a floor round in the math world.
To round a number look at the next digit in the right place, if the digit is less than 5, round down and if the digit is 5 or more than 5, round up. That's pretty much math ... since like math was a thing.
Rounding can be done both up and down.
No worries .. I'll sig her up some more to get to 2 buffs.
It is obvious you understand how the math works considering this sentence you said:
"If you're rounding to a whole number, decimals from 0.1 to 0.4 round *DOWN* and decimals from 0.5 to 0.9 round *UP*" (emphasis added)
Intuition tells us when it says round up, we are going up. Listen to the wise words of Obi-Wan the wise:
I'm sorry but you don't even remeber the math your teachers taught you. If the Sig said just rounded you would be right. But it says UP. and if you had listened to your teachers you'd know rounding up and rounding down are different from just saying rounded.
However, I see a problem with the way the sig is configured. You have to invest a lot of Sig stones to get from 3 to under 2, for example. Especially 6 * Sig - Stones are rare and it takes time to collect them and in all that time the Sig - ability is not doing anything. You pump in stone by stone and in the end it doesn't matter whether you're at 2.9 or 2.1, although you've used several dozen Sig stones in the meantime. Overall, it could have been done better. An invested Sig stone has to pay off somehow.
Just not admitting you were wrong, but not just double, but triple down on it and calling it "Kabam Math".
There are loads of things wrong in this game and with descriptions, this isn't one of them.
This is the Dunning–Kruger effect in action
Round down = take the previous whole number
2.08 -> 2
KaBaM MaTh RigHt??
I listed CLASSROOM DEFINITIONS of what rounding up is. I hope that we all went to a proper school and were taught how to properly round up a number.
When to Round Up or Down
When rounding a number you will "round up" or "round down". When the number you are rounding is between 0-4, you round down to the next lowest number. When the number is 5-9, you round the number up to the next highest number.
Taken form simple kid math. Now granted, this is a video game and I get they're not using "math" ... but holy cow acting as if I've changed the rules that teachers have been teaching for decades upon decades when it comes to when to round a number up or not is .. mind bottling.
I'm not doubling down, tripling down .. mate really?? LOL look up the definition of when to round a number up and report back.
In this case, sure I get it .. it's not actual math and Kabam wants you to round up no matter what so cool. It's not that serious to go on about on some wild goose chase as if I said anything that was remotely not true in every single educational school in America.
Again, I get it ... whatever number it is .. round up to the next number for Angry Girl. Let's all have some cake now.
When to Round Up or Down
When rounding a number you will "round up" or "round down". When the number you are rounding is between 0-4, you round down to the next lowest number. When the number is 5-9, you round the number up to the next highest number.
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The initial operation listed above “when ROUNDING a number” implies normal rounding (it just states “rounding”). And yes, in that case, it describes when it would be either rounded up or rounded down.
But there are other times when the operation is specifically ROUND UP (or ROUND DOWN). Which in other words is basically the same as TRUNCATING (in case of Round Down), or it's upward equivalent of Truncation for Round Up.
Those are not as widely referred to, and definitely the Round Down (aka Truncate) you would see more often than situations that say Round Up.
*although “ROUND UP” is actually popular usage when you buy something at a store, and the register asks if you want to “Round Up” to the next dollar. So you don’t have to deal with coins (just paper bills), and have the excess donated to charity.
It could’ve said “rounded according to what you were taught in math class.” It didn’t. It specified ROUND UP, just like kingpin specifies to round down. Why weren’t you here throwing a fit because his 2.5 rages wouldn’t become 3?
And I don't have Kingpin so I never experienced the round down thing lol wow does it really say round down?? wow. Well whenever I do get him, I'll take it literal as well.
And you're wrong that "there's no way you can round up 2.09. it all depends on what is specified