Re: [pbmserv-dev] Solitaire game scoring

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 10:28 AM +1000 on Friday 4/16/2004 when Cameron Browne wrote:
> It turns out that the user's rating changes by 1 pt for every N pts their 
> score differs from their current average.

Well, duh.

> and integer rounding makes this a pretty chunky increment.

Simple method to reduce chunkiness:  Multiply by 10:

                 ((N-1) * oldrating) + 10 * currentscore
   newrating = ----------------------------------------------
                             N

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