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by codelikeawolf 896 days ago
Wow! That's bananas! Imagine being 20 minutes and 6 decimal places away from a million bucks.
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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