# Boosting for a number near X
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-for-a-number-near-x/17026
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 15, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-for-a-number-near-x/17026 "2014-04-15T13:18:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Bowden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Guy_Bowden)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-for-a-number-near-x/17026/1 "2014-04-15T13:18:17Z")
Hi,
I have documents (accommodations) stored with a numeric attribute - "number
of beds"
I'd like to be able to boost by a certain amount if that number is close to
a search query.
e.g. prefer documents with a number of beds close to what is being searched
for.
This will be added to the rest of the search criteria - is there a way to
do this? I can filter by a number within a range, but would like the
results returned to take some ordering from the closeness of the number
searched for.
Thanks
Guy
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### Author:  [@Hannes\_Korte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hannes_Korte)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-for-a-number-near-x/17026/2 "2014-04-15T13:45:09Z")
Hi Guy,
sounds like you are looking for the function score query:
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And there maybe especially for the decay functions:
"Decay functions score a document with a function that decays depending
on the distance of a numeric field value of the document from a user
given origin. This is similar to a range query, but with smooth edges
instead of boxes."
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Have a look at all the beautiful example plots Britta created.. 🙂
Best regards,
Hannes
On 15.04.2014 15:18, Guy Bowden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have documents (accommodations) stored with a numeric attribute - "number
> of beds"
>
> I'd like to be able to boost by a certain amount if that number is close to
> a search query.
>
> e.g. prefer documents with a number of beds close to what is being searched
> for.
>
> This will be added to the rest of the search criteria - is there a way to
> do this? I can filter by a number within a range, but would like the
> results returned to take some ordering from the closeness of the number
> searched for.
>
> Thanks
> Guy
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-for-a-number-near-x/17026/3 "2017-07-06T01:35:45Z")