way way off topic

[Gary Kline]

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 at 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 at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
> >               Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
> >
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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
              Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.