Hey, we use the Poll Builder to conduct Polls in the Forum. The Poll is usually displayed with percentages for every option and the number of total votes that voted in the Poll. I would like to know how the Builder is “rounding” votes into percentages displayed. So say we require an option to rece…

I think it uses the largest remainder method to round up to 100% plugins/poll/assets/javascripts/lib/even-round.js cc4af80c7 // works as described on http://stackoverflow.com/a/13483710 function sumsUpTo100(percentages) { return percentages…

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Phylo_IF (Phylo [IF]) December 19, 2022, 4:42am 3

Thanks a lot. That’s what I thought, but good to have it clarified.

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