# Rounding of percentages on polls is inaccurate

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** polls\
**Created:** [20. September 2016 um 06:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-of-percentages-on-polls-is-inaccurate/50376 "2016-09-20T06:20:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [20. September 2016 um 23:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-of-percentages-on-polls-is-inaccurate/50376/4 "2016-09-20T23:42:06Z")

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> [@Mittineague](#):
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> The first, by nut displaying a numerical percent value, would make it obvious that the results are not always precise.
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> The second would require changes to the code.

I think there’s maybe a third option: for polls which allow users to select more than one option, change the presentation of percentages so that they just use a basic `round()` call, rather than whatever’s going on at the moment to make single-choice polls add up to 100.

I agree that we don’t want too much visual noise – I already hide the total number of votes through CSS (as that really is visual noise – if you really want to know it, you can do some pretty basic maths to find it!) – so I agree with you, @Mittineague, that showing decimal values wouldn’t be particularly useful.

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