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  "id": 14215,
  "title": "Question about Submission File Format",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/discussion/14215",
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  "post_date": "2015-05-14T11:09:41.803Z",
  "votes": 2,
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  "content": "<p>I've noticed that some of the entries&nbsp;in my submission use the 'e' notation for floating point numbers, i.e numbers like &quot;7.14285714286e-05&quot;</p>\n<p>Can the admins confirm that this is acceptable?</p>",
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      "id": "78390",
      "postDate": "05/14/2015 11:09:41",
      "content": "<p>I've noticed that some of the entries&nbsp;in my submission use the 'e' notation for floating point numbers, i.e numbers like &quot;7.14285714286e-05&quot;</p>\n<p>Can the admins confirm that this is acceptable?</p>",
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      "id": "78662",
      "postDate": "05/16/2015 14:54:41",
      "content": "<p>Can someone please answer this? I'm growing a little uneasy as I suspect my submissions without numbers using the 'e' format are a little better.</p>",
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      "id": "78806",
      "postDate": "05/17/2015 20:52:13",
      "content": "<p>Since the evaluation measure (area under the ROC curve) does not depend on the actual values themselves (it only depends on the order in which it sorts the data),&nbsp;you could rescale your submission to a range where you&nbsp;wouldn't be using the 'e' notation and resubmit. If the score is the same you don't need to worry about it.</p>\n<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic</p>",
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      "id": "78811",
      "postDate": "05/17/2015 22:24:44",
      "content": "<p>Yes, I'm aware. I just don't want to waste submissions and coding effort on this.</p>",
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      "id": 78662,
      "author_name": "cihanb",
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      "post_date": "05/16/2015 14:54:41",
      "content": "<p>Can someone please answer this? I'm growing a little uneasy as I suspect my submissions without numbers using the 'e' format are a little better.</p>",
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      "id": 78806,
      "author_name": "edwingraham",
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      "post_date": "05/17/2015 20:52:13",
      "content": "<p>Since the evaluation measure (area under the ROC curve) does not depend on the actual values themselves (it only depends on the order in which it sorts the data),&nbsp;you could rescale your submission to a range where you&nbsp;wouldn't be using the 'e' notation and resubmit. If the score is the same you don't need to worry about it.</p>\n<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic</p>",
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    {
      "id": 78811,
      "author_name": "cihanb",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/17/2015 22:24:44",
      "content": "<p>Yes, I'm aware. I just don't want to waste submissions and coding effort on this.</p>",
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    }
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