Re: Order by Size in Entourage



On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:28:13 -0700, Nathan Herring [MSFT] wrote:

> On 6/30/05 3:55:50 PM, in article
> bjordan-065152.10554901072005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bob Jordan"
> <bjordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> This is a quirk of rounding error. The "10" is some value >= 9.5 rounded
> up incorrectly. This is really a just-shy-of-4k message that should be
> reported as 4k instead.
>
> -nh

I noticed something similar: it sorts messages from small, to 990kb, then
to 0.10 MB, then to 1 MB... But it sorts them right, only the size
representation is incorrect.

This 0.10 MB should however be 0.9 MB...


Joost.


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