On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> When generating an HTML report with pie charts, the percentages don't 
> always make sense. For example, I have one chart with the following 
> Security Risks percentages:
> 
>     67% low
>     28% medium
>    + 6% high
>    ----
>    101% Oops!
> 
> Unless a vulnerability can be in more than one category at the same time, 
> this is probably an error. :) 

That's a rounding error. That happens, and if you know how painful
floating arithmetics can be, then you know that this won't be fixed.


                                -- Renaud

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