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Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#41

Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.

Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#43

"According to my reckoning a human weighs at most 80kg"

Yeah..... um, so I picked min max ranges which would accomodate 50-90% of something. The human one is probably a bit narrow. It was a manic day of googling. Trying to work out what one molecule of caffeine weighs nearly broke me.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#44

Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.

Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

Maybe greek prefixes or even spelling out the bigger units? I.e. 9.4 gigagrams or 54 billion kilograms.

Of course you might have the issue of short scale vs. long scale billions but a footnote should solve that.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#46

Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.

Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

Perhaps a toggle?

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#50

Fun! Some feedback: 1. Spruce up the design to make seeing the answer more of a "fun" experience 2. Button to share an answer on social media 2. Button to send a question to a friend

TBH my HTML and CSS is so rusty. I haven't built a webpage in about a decade! I love number 2 and number 2. That's awesome, especially sending a question to a friend. Love it.

I texted my kid a photo of my monitor as a workaround :)
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