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 <kl...@thought.org> 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 kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"