[Babase] rain gauge rounding

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed Jul 29 13:48:26 EDT 2009


On 07/29/2009 12:25:58 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote:
> Sorry about not having caught this earlier, but please make it that
> the
> data be in mm as is but that rounding is to nearest single decimal
> digit
> (tenths of a mm).

Ok.

Now for the technicalities, for the record.

Niki and I will have to work out re-doing what Tabby and
I did, I think.  Because I recall running the weather
data through some program or another and one of the things
that was done was to round the rain data to the nearest
mm.  Either we can re-do/re-enter everything, or do something
to just update the rain data.  Niki, what do you think?

As far as the computer is concerned, it operates a whole
lot faster if we don't have a decimal point and instead
store the rain information in whole units of 1/10th of
a millimeter.  It seems to me that this could be
awkward.  I don't think we really care about
performance given the amount of data we're looking
at.  Still, it seems worth asking weather or not
anybody cares if the units are integers in tenths
of a millimeter or not.  Please comment.



Karl <kop at meme.com>
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