significant digits?

[David Relson]

At 06:55 PM 4/9/03, Jim Correia wrote:

>Does bogofilter keep track of significant digits when doing its 
>calculations, and take them into account when applying the cutoff value?
>
>X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.949660, version=0.11.1.6
>
>Just curious if that one should have been caught with a spam_cutoff of 
>0.95 (which isn't represented exactly as that in binary anyway.)
>
>Jim

No.  0.95 converts internally to 0.9500000 (or something similar) and 
bogofilter uses the converted value.  Implementing rounding _could_ be 
done, but there's no point.  If someone wants 0.94966 to indicate spam, 
then they should specify a spam_cutoff value.

David