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The specified weights look like they are meant to be percentages (all=100), but the specification for missing weights seems to be fractional (all=1). I think that this deserves either a bit more explanation (as to why the use of "1" for default weight is correct) or correction. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 01:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 
:Hi Rdm, Those weights are not percentages - They are "fractions of the sum of the weights" at that level. I was playing around with what weight to apply to house1 and house2 and rejected 1, 2 then eventually considered 2, 3 and realised that for those integers it would be the same as 54, 6 and 40, 60 - saw the total weight of being 100, and the :
:# Ease of hand calculation.
:# Similarity to prcentages.
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