Think of an auction. It's multiple people bidding for a single item. Each person it bidding against a single person, the one with the highest bid. Now think about an auction for multiple items. Each item can be bid on individually OR as a single "lot". The fight is now between you and one other person for the single item and you (and all other bidders on single items) against whoever bid on the entire lot. A lot of 3 items with each person bidding a dollar on an item will go to the person bidding 4 dollars on the lot. If you bid another dollar you still don't win as you have not beaten the lot bid. If you and someone else both bid a dollar on 2 different items in the lot, then the individuals with with a total of 5 dollars individually vs. 4 dollars for the lot. Now take this to the next level where a lot can be a single item in a larger, higher level lot. Lot 1 holds 3 series of books. Lot 1a holds 5 Dresdin books, lot 1b holds 3 harry potter books, and lot 1c holds 10 misc books. Who wins? And what of more levels and different sized lots? And what if there is a percentage differential between a lot vs. the items (bidding on the lot 'wins' with 5% less than the individual items). And on and on and on. All according to specific business rules. All according to a mathematical formula that has to be created and then coded for. Took me 3 months to codify the formula and a week or so to implement it. In CF MX 6.0. And with writing components that I would be embarrassed to show today. But still in about 150 lines of code. That's the math I'm paid for. The math of someones ideas that need to be brought into existence as an equation. An equation that can then be applied to code (or something else). One day I'm actually going to go back to school and get a firmer grounding in math. I have tremendous natural skill with logically breaking a problem down into its core components but natural skill pales in comparison to training.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Michael Dinowitz < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've done math for pay (multi-tier auction logic) > > > That intrigues me....what is "multi-tier auction logic" ?? > > I ended up with a second major in math mostly because it interested me, > and > I knew that it would be a skill that could help me with whatever I ended > up > doing....but I never really thought of "math" as a way to make money, in > and > of itself. > > -- > I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free > Got the magic power of the music in me > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
