Is having 104% in lbp3 normal or a bug?

So i had lbp3 for quite a while now and like a year ago i made a platinum trophy on it but... The last that had to do was this level where you HAVE to play with 4 other people and well when i finished it with Ace, all collectibles and before the time is up i got the last collectibles in the whole game. But even before i mastered this level i still got 102% now i have 104% i mean looks nice and is a big flex but still is it a bug or am i just superior?

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Michael VanOverbeek

Jul 29, 2021

I wonder if there's maybe a technical reason for this happening? Obviously it's a bug, that's for sure. Speculation here but, from my experience as a programmer, this type of stuff happens with floating point math - for example, if you add 1/3rd + 2/3rds together (0.333 recurring + 0.666 recurring), you get 0.999 recurring. This is just how computers are, even if we as humans understand 1/3rd + 2/3rd as equalling 1.

I imagine that the game is adding up a bunch of different percentages, like maybe the percentage of goodies collected in each story level, and dividing it by the amount of percentages. (So, if there are 15 story levels, it'll add each goodies collected percentage up and divide by 15) to get the percentage of goodies collected across the entire game. Thus probably causing a significant-enough rounding error for the total percentage to go above 100%.

Edit: Relevant Computerphile video from a while back done by Tom Scott, does a much better job explaining this than I do:

phantomstrom

Jul 15, 2021

think its normal. i have over 100% too

NO NAME

Jul 14, 2021

Thanks, by the way imagine having 200% xD it would be cool XD

Dstomp

Jul 14, 2021

In my experience, it is very normal. Exceedingly normal. Aggressively normal, even. But I believe it is a bug, still. Mine has been slowly rising more and more each time I get a profile corruption, to the point where it now reads 139%. It's just another one of those great mysteries of LBP3, I guess