Decimal Judge Marks with a Clean Final Display

This is an invented planning exercise, not a customer event or testimonial.

Background and constraints

A fictional panel uses half-point marks. The host wants the weighted arithmetic retained without displaying distracting binary floating-point artifacts.

Exact tool inputs

Ari
Bea

Craft,Interpretation,Presentation

40,35,25

2

Actual generated result

names

• Ari
• Bea

criteria

• Craft
• Interpretation
• Presentation

weights

• 40
• 35
• 25

judges

2

scores

• • • 8.5
    • 7.5
    • 9
  • • 8
    • 8
    • 8.5
• • • 8
    • 8
    • 8
  • • 8.5
    • 7.5
    • 8

rankings

• name

  Ari

  score

  8.2

  rank

  1

• name

  Bea

  score

  8.0125

  rank

  2

Planning process

The organizer announces half-point scoring and enters both judge sheets. The engine computes each weighted total, averages the panel and normalizes the final numeric representation. The host does not round every criterion before summing.

Result explanation

Rounding only after the calculation avoids changing the contribution of individual criteria. The display should show a usable score rather than a long artifact such as 7.800000000000001. Any coarser public rounding policy must still be announced separately.

Alternative

Use whole-number marks if half-points do not add meaningful judgment precision.

Execution notes

Do not imply that extra decimal places make subjective judgment objectively exact. Retain the actual entered sheets for review.

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