Show Charge 6 Resting HR to one decimal place

[scottah75]

I see on the dashboard that my daily resting heart rate is for example 61, 61, 60, 61 ... bpm. Is it possible to record this daily resting heart rate in my dashboard to one decimal place, e.g. above four values might be 60.8, 61.1, 60.4, 61.0 ...

If possible, how to do this? Thanks for any input/guidance.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[MattRoxx]

How could your heart rate (number of beats in 1 minute) be a fraction? 

[scottah75]

Sure the heart rate it is an integer but its average can be more precise. The resting heart rate, I assume, is determined via many integer readings over the course of a day.  If I hit 5 home runs this week and 4 next week, isn't my average 4.5? Yet, I cannot hit 4.5 but if I round up to 5 this over-estimates my home run average.

[RiekoC]

Hello @scottah75 

The Fitbit algorithm for determining resting heart rate is designed to round to a whole number. Based on my limited experience, this seems to be the norm for reporting resting heart rate.

Out of curiosity, have you seen any other fitness tracker that reports resting heart rate to one decimal point?

Since this is something you're interested in, you are welcome to submit your feature request in the Product Feedback forum (<-- click link). I understand that the developers monitor this forum for future features.

[MattRoxx]

A HR with decimal would be less precise, because it would be a heart rate that you never had at any time and wouldn't convey any more useful information.  Even hospital HR monitors don't use decimals.

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From Copilot AI "Indeed, 0.999 is less precise than 1. When we express a number as 0.999, it is very close to but not exactly equal to 1. In mathematics, we often use the concept of limit to understand this relationship. As we approach infinity, the value of 0.999 gets arbitrarily close to 1. Therefore, we can say that 0.999 is approximately equal to 1. "

[scottah75]

Thanks everyone for the various for the various comments. The Google Takeout data download expresses resting heart rate to a high number of decimals. (Why so many I do no know.)

The integer value we see in the app (dashboard) is rounded down. Example 

- 60.0921821594238 is expressed as '60'

- 59.8669586181641 is expressed as '59'

Why rounded down I do not know but this is what I observed having downloaded 2 weeks of data today.

Clearly, the context is important as to how any data - not just resting heart rate data - are rounded/used etc. I agree that a heart rate cannot be anything but a positive whole number.

But, as said in my example the other day, again using home runs analogy.

- Player 1: 5 last week and 5 this week; average = 5

- Player 2: 4 last week and 5 this week; average = 4.5 (but 1/2 a home run is impossible)

If we express only as integer we would mistakenly suggest that Players 1 and 2 have an equal average ...