Does Yahoo have problems with simple mathematics?

[Laura]

I am only a relative newcomer to the Answers site, but why is it when I check my profile page the graph on the right hand side says that I have given 22 answers, one of which has been chosen as a best answer.

The best answer is rated as 4% of the total and the other 21 are rated as 95%.

Am I wrong, or am I being robbed or 1%?

[Mark R]

1 ÷ 22 = 0.04545454... = 4.54% (2 dp)
which should be rounded to 5%...
Yes Yahoo! has got it wrong. It's because in code like php/javascript etc. I think there's just a 'round down' function which would round it down to 4% instead of doing proper rounding and rounding it to 5%.
Oh well, it doesn't really matter...

[psych_78]

Have you never heard of rounding up and rounding down?? That is what has happened - you have not been robbed of 1%.

[Harriet]

The 1% is Yanswers commission.

[Heinz M]

They don't round up, so you are always at a total of 99%. ~

[gavmel259]

no. it called rounding off by decimal places.