Well, Dan you right.
This and more is well depicted, for who want to read more on the
subject, at the wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_%28computer_science%29
Go down on the tables to see those dreaded numbers.
But it shouldn't be a problem only of some logger.
It seems to me that that triggering value is generated when anybody that
have made more than that declared score value try to write it inside the
3830 form.
I say that as I just entered the declared score for IQ1RY and it
returned to me the same integer value of 2,147,483,647 ...
That just I have had entered 5,277,929,784, I am more than sure. As N1MM
Logger wrote for IQ1RY that table:
Band QSOs Pts DXC Are
3,5 31 284 14 3
7 159 1600 32 14
14 440 5105 54 23
21 395 5660 58 28
28 129 3014 42 14
Total 1154 15663 200 82
Score : 5.277.929.784
(Oh yes, we really had a blast this time! TU all!)
Now as Volta rules tell: Points x Multipliers x QSOs = Final score. So,
it could that there is something wrong wrong made by me. As
15,663*282*1,154=5,097,178,764. But this is not even near 2,147,483,647.
Look at the case for long integer for W32 and UNIX (as the form is a
.php) in the second table on the wikipedia page (Common long integer
sizes). That the first line C ISO/ANSI C99" for 32 bit UNIX ...
So Dan it could be just a http://www.3830scores.com/scoreform.php error
and not an error of any logger, or the two things together. Isn't it?
BTW we are the fourth with the same numbers Shelby, great that you to
have seen that "no difference".
Anybody that reached more than that declared score would have just THAT
number coming back from the scoreform, I suspect.
Hope that my poor to not existent English root may have made all this
sounding enough for everybody.
It isn't all RTTY, sorry for being a short OT, but still bits and
bytes, that's from where the 5 digits Baudot take its sounds.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
On 14/05/2013 18:00, rtty-request@contesting.com wrote:
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:21:33 -0500
From: Dan Karg<dkarg@ekarg.com>
To: RTTY Reflector<rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Volta Scores
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Seeing as that is the largest value that a signed 32 bit integer can
represent I'd say it's due to the logging software not setup to handle that
large of score. I think somebody reported having a negative score, which
would also be indicative of the software having over run the total score
variable.
Dan K0TI
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Shelby Summerville<k4ww@arrl.net> wrote:
>Anyone else find this a little "interesting"?
>
> LZ6K(LZ2PL) 996 242 22:30 2,147,483,647
> K4GMH 830 213 13 2,147,483,647 PVRC
> EM?I(UT2IZ) 1021 240 24 2,147,483,647 UCC
>
>
>
>C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
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