[RTTY] Volta Scores

[iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato]

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 at contesting.com wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:21:33 -0500
> From: Dan Karg<dkarg at ekarg.com>
> To: RTTY Reflector<rtty at 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.
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> Dan K0TI
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Shelby Summerville<k4ww at arrl.net>  wrote:
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>> >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