Zombies win or humans win

Zombies win or humans win

by Linan Shi -
Number of replies: 1

Dear Prof van Zon,

I checked the results with other students and found that I had 823 human-win cases & 493 zombie-win cases, while other students had 828 human-win cases & 488 zombie-win cases. Then I went to check my "zombie-least-likely-winning" cases. I realized that, i.e. ./mzasolve 0.32 0.62, the outcome was "survival=0% winners=humans".

When processing my results, I used "survivals=0%" as zombie-win, while others used "winners=zombies" as zombie-win. This should be where the discrepancy came from. However, I think "survival=0% winners=humans" might be ambiguous to distinguish the winners.

I would like to report this issue. Thanks!

In reply to Linan Shi

Re: Zombies win or humans win

by Ramses van Zon -
Noted, thanks. The issue is of course with the finite precision in the percentage output, and another demonstration that one should generally prefer binary output over text. That the winners= line is correct can be checked with the produced (binary) netcdf files, but that wasn't expected in this assignment.