On Sun, 15 May 2005, Craig McLean wrote:

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> Loren Wilton wrote:
> |>Now correct me if I'm wrong, but 3.5 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 0.1 is not 4.1 ?
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> | Rounding.  See the wiki.
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> Can you be more specific? A search of wiki.apache.org/spamassassin shows
> 2 pages containing "rounding":
> StatusRounding - orphaned.
> RoundingIssues - this is not the issue I'm talking about, and in any
> case was fixed in 3.0.

I don't what the wiki says, but here's my guess.  The scores applied
are actually three digits after the decimal.  In the header report
they are rounded off.  Suppose the exact scores in the example you
gave are 3.544 + 0.231 + 0.142 + 0.145.  These add up to 4.062,
which rounds to 4.1.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>     Bloomington, IN, USA

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