On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:59:00 -0000, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, No fancy math here, so thee might be a cleaner way, but here > is how I'd do it. >
Yikes. Thanks for insight and solving it, Btw, I bought your book a while ago and it was the first that explained classes to me in a a a way I got it, by explaining exactly what *self* stood for in all the examples. All the other books just went on, and never even thought of explaining leaving me for months in a dizzy on what the heck *self* meant in making classes Thanks for that and the help here > > (Note the patient only has 5mg tabs, which they can split to make > dose > > adjust my 2.5) > > OK< so we are dealing with a unit size of 2.5mg. Convert the total > dosage into 2.5mg units. 35mg = 35/2.5 = 14 units > > Divide the number of units by the number of days using integer > division: > > divmod(14,7) -> 2,0 > > that tells us you need 2 units per day and no adjustment > > Add 10% => 14 + 1.4 = 15.4 units. YOu must decide to either > round up or down, lets say you round up to 16 units > > divide the doze as before > > divmod(16,7) -> 2,2 > > that says 2 units per day and on 2 days an extra unit. > (Which was your guestimate) > > If you rounded down to 15 > > divmoid(15,7) -> 2,1 > > which is 2 units/day and 1 day with an extra unit. > > > How would I solve this using math instead of geustimating it. > > What kind of math am I talking about here? > > integer math with a hint of quantum techniques thrown in > > If the above didn't make sense just shout and we can explain > in more detail. > > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web tutor > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
