Re: 100%

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi,

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, René Scharfe wrote:

> As I already hinted at, the common result of comparing two files, as 
> done by e.g. cmp(1), is one bit that indicates equality.  This 
> information is lost when using up/down rounding, but it is retained when 
> rounding down.  It's _not_ common to be unable to determine equality 
> from the result of a file compare.

And as _I_ already hinted, this does not matter. The whole purpose to have 
a number here instead of a bit is to have a larger range. In practice, I 
bet that the 100% are really uninteresting. At least here, they are.

For example, if you move a Java class from one package into another, you 
have to change the package name in the file. Guess what, I am perfectly 
okay if the rename detector says "100% similarity" here. Because if it is 
closer to 100% than to 99%, dammit, I want to see 100%, not 99%.

Nuff said about this subject.

Ciao,
Dscho