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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Douglas Cerna <douglascerna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just noticed that the gradebook returns the average of a worksheet as integer.
>
> According to the README.txt functional doctest in the gradebook package:
>
> ----- %< -----
> We can get a student average for the worksheet, an integer percentage that
> can later be used to formulate a letter grade.
> ----- %< -----
>
> However the int(round(...)) approach used in the getWorksheetTotalAverage method of the gradebook loses a little precision. Is this ok?

Actually, I guess it is not, since it will return "surprising" values.

--Tom