From: Andrew <eagletalon@chartermi.net>
Subject: Re: interest computing problem
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:26:23 -0500
Date: 2003-09-16T23:26:23-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vmfolom574c801@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vEH9b.477044$o%2.211902@sccrnsc02>
tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>>>hoping this is a simple error that I'm overlooking..
>>
>>Your program appears to be correct to me. What were you expecting?
>
> Perhaps he didn't realize that "What is the interest you will receive? "
> is highly ambiguous and in the one case he entered 25, indicating 25%,
> and in the other .25, which was interpreted as 1/4%.
actually that a very ambiguous statement.. and regrettably I didn't
properly document this program when I was in college. but I do believe
that the interest rate is to be entered in the not decimal format. i.e.
25% is entered as 25
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-17 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-16 15:27 interest computing problem Andrew
2003-09-16 15:54 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-16 17:21 ` tmoran
2003-09-17 4:26 ` Andrew [this message]
2003-09-16 21:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-17 3:48 ` Andrew
2003-09-17 4:28 ` Andrew
2003-09-17 5:18 ` tmoran
2003-09-17 7:47 ` Andrew
2003-09-17 16:05 ` Andrew
2003-09-17 16:32 ` Martin Dowie
2003-09-17 16:36 ` Stupid! -was- " Andrew
2003-09-17 17:00 ` Stephane Richard
2003-09-17 17:15 ` Andrew
2003-09-19 4:07 ` Leon Winslow
2003-09-21 22:55 ` Andrew
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2003-09-22 0:44 Robert I. Eachus
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