On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:31:18AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Gary,
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program,
> > but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent
> > that I
> > had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either.
> >
> > here is the problem as best I can remember it.
> >
> >
> > let's say that john is 8 and his older friend, jim, is 22.
> > how much older is exact percentage terms is jim?
>
> That should be 22/8=2.75
> Jim is 275% older than John
>
> Olivier
>
thanks. but this wasn't the formula I remember mousing
down. I'll keep looking.
gary
ps: it was involved; something with three or more steps.
things that I had crammed together in one line of C...
> > to find the answer I had to find the relative difference {22 - 8} and then
> > do something with the difference. this isn't any kind of trick or
> > "advanced-cognition"; I just thought it was clever [and exact]. it
> > obviously
> > works for finding the abs() results in subtraction. it's something I found
> > on
> > the web and swipes and save the prose discussion. BZZT: Lost, :-(
> >
> > if this seems dumb, I plead guilty!
> >
> > im asking here because -questions is the sharpest list on the net.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
> > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
> >
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