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?
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.
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Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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