Imagine that people who look at your profile are scoring you
I came across a profile once that had a scoring game in the “message me if” field. Specifically, it was a list of traits the author found desireable, numbered by powers of two, and an invitation to send him the sum of the traits which applied to the reader. I was pretty amused by that.
I think a better question is, how many knew enough to realize he was using an integer to encode a set, rather than doing a weighting with some things valued exponentially more than others...
I came across a profile once that had a scoring game in the “message me if” field. Specifically, it was a list of traits the author found desireable, numbered by powers of two, and an invitation to send him the sum of the traits which applied to the reader. I was pretty amused by that.
I wonder how many potential matches know enough maths to realize why he used powers of two?
I suspect most of the ones who played the game at all.
I think a better question is, how many knew enough to realize he was using an integer to encode a set, rather than doing a weighting with some things valued exponentially more than others...
I want to marry that person!