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Ryan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Do the math, they are not rounded. They all calculate exactly.
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not sure what you mean. The math outputs a rounded percentage that matches what you see there.
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What do you mean “the math outputs a rounded number”?

Do the math without rounding
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Ryan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The number of votes was calculated from the percentages, not vice versa.
https://i.nostr.build/Svncryl0oWNDYd8S.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/ARHk03onqzoc59pA.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/d9IALMjRO8ZLTrXH.jpg
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bro, what? You have vote tallies before you do percentages…
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Ok at this point I think @Karnage is trolling us lol
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You guys are confused 😵‍💫
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Ryan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What are the chances the actual vote would work out to perfect single digit percentages?
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 “You can’t caculate a percent before you have the total count”
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There’s is a total count
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 100 😂 that’s how percentages work. They come out to exact math you’re calculating from when rounded up…
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is a great troll btw
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I bust me missing a piece of information, an image of some pretext or something because it seems fine to me. 

1. You get your tally
2. You do the percentage math of total tally
3. Excel will output depending on your cell decimal settings.

Not sure what else y’all talking about
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 The tally was generated from these inputs:
1. Total categories (2 candidates + ‘Other’ = 3)
2. Desired percentage breakdown (lazily, all given in 1 decimal precision)
3. Total voters

You’d have to play with 2 or 3, or let an algorithm/program do that for you, to get it to all work out so evenly.
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’ll look again when I’m at my desk and plug it all in.
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MF_HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Classic case of lazy fake statistics
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Karnage | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That makes no sense, you can’t even get a percentage without a tally