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by Irishsteve 894 days ago
Yes - from what I remember the team that came second lost out due to something like 6 decimal places and the time diff in submission. It was pretty close!
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Wow! That's bananas! Imagine being 20 minutes and 6 decimal places away from a million bucks.
I might be mis-remembering this part - but I believe napoleon dynamite had its own algorithm in the ensemable because it was a tricky one to predict the rating for.
Being six decimal places away from winning means the winner was one million times better than you.
They're talking about 0.999999 vs 0.999998, or ~1 part in 1 million different