Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:32:06 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: way way off topic Message-ID: <20121023223205.GD29440@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvgaYY-nh9d89a7ytf9RAgMSjFNHPh3GzNqNG0xPFEX9BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20121023042007.GA14738@ethic.thought.org> <CA%2Bg%2BBvgaYY-nh9d89a7ytf9RAgMSjFNHPh3GzNqNG0xPFEX9BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <kline@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 kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
> > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
> >
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