A Suggestion For Reps

The Reputation stat for many users is getting WAY out of hand. I think mine are past a trillion now. Before long we'll have to resort to scientific notation or some other similar tactic to shrink it down...

My proposal is that we take the cubic root (x^(1/3))of each member's Reputation and adjust it to that level. This would lop off a lot of unnecessary digits. Examples of Reputation "before" and "after" this operation (rounded to nearest integer):

OLD REP NEW REP
10,000 22
50,000 37
100,000 46
2,000,000 126
50,000,000 368
1,000,000,000 1,000
10,000,000,000 2,154
500,000,000,000 7,937
20,000,000,000,000 27,144
1,000,000,000,000,000 100,000

Thoughts?

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I actually like the high numbers format. I think it helps us understand that such big numbers are beyond our comprehension and that teaches us something valuable about God and His universe (think number of stars out there).

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You'd have a lot of angry members if you did that. Plus I don't think it would help since the ones who play rep games would have their reps back up to these numbers in no time.

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You'd have a lot of angry members if you did that. Plus I don't think it would help since the ones who play rep games would have their reps back up to these numbers in no time.

Probably.

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