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Add the "Number of days since last explosion" counter to the scrolling LED matrix display #1519

Open amcewen opened 3 years ago

amcewen commented 3 years ago

Since we don't have the screen on the doorbot at present, we've lost the "Number of days since last explosion". We should reinstate it onto one of @goatchurchprime's LED matrix displays

MatthewCroughan commented 3 years ago

If I remember correctly, @ajlennon has some matrix displays around his desk area that are physically large and higher resolution than the strip that is on the support beam above the space that is currently displaying the issue list. I think they're spare? He can confirm.

ajlennon commented 3 years ago

I do have some. You can use them if you like yes.

Sean-anotherone commented 3 years ago

hmmmmmmm....

RiverMersey commented 3 years ago

Hopefully the variable that stores this number is assigned to be a "long unsigned integer" rather than a "byte"?! [As in, we want this number to be able to get as far away from zero as possible!]

Sean-anotherone commented 3 years ago

Oddly, I'd quite like it to be reset.....

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ajlennon commented 3 years ago

Well I think of myself as a pragmatist but you are bringing out the optimistic side. If we're happy to lose a little precision what about some double floats?

nixinator commented 3 years ago

this is sounding like the plot of superman 3. An example of salami slicing, also known as penny shaving, is the fraudulent practice of stealing money repeatedly in extremely small quantities, usually by taking advantage of rounding to the nearest cent (or other monetary unit) in financial transactions. It would be done by always rounding down, and putting the fractions of a cent into another account. The idea is to make the change small enough that any single transaction will go undetected.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing