Yay: Scientific notation of small popularities

[bepvte]

Affected Version

yay v6.786.r0.gd442af9

Issue

Packages with small decimal popularity are shown in scientific/exponent notation

Steps to reproduce

1. yay -Si chrome-shutdown-hook (0.000009 popularity when I cloned it)

Output:

~ ❯❯❯ pac -Si chrome-shutdown-hook
:: Querying AUR...
Repository      : aur
Name            : chrome-shutdown-hook
Version         : 1.3.2-1
Description     : Gently shutdown Chrome/Chromium on logout from Gnome Shell.
URL             : https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html
Licenses        : GPL
Provides        : 
Depends On      : procps-ng  python2  gnome-python
Make Deps       : 
Check Deps      : 
Optional Deps   : gnome-tweak-tool
Conflicts With  : 
Maintainer      : Terence
Votes           : 6
Popularity      : 9e-06

[Jguer]

I've been trying to figure out how to address this issue for 5 minutes at least since I do not see any problem with the way the output is displayed.

Could you explain how this is an issue?

[Morganamilo]

They probably wanted it printed as 0.000009

fmt.Printf("%s%15s %f\n", bold("Popularity"), bold(":"), a.Popularity)

That works.

[AladW]

Or just do it like a physicist and write 0 beyond a certain threshold.

[Jguer]

Yes, sure, I understood, I just guess having a popularity of 9e-06 or 0.000009 doesn't make much difference, specially since we trim to 0.00% on yay -Y if I'm not wrong.

EDIT: @AladW I've seen values in the order of millions being approximated to 0 in semiconductor physics, I would guess the rating would go either 0 or max if we were to follow some EE physicist logic \s

[Jguer]

If this makes difference to some people, I don't really care, it can be displayed as 0.000009.

just thought it was funny

[bepvte]

thank you very much! sorry about the ambiguity