RE: Dumb programming question..

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. RE: Dumb programming question.. (Joel Fritz)
>
>I missed the discrete math but took the rest.  Of course, I was a
>history major so discrete math wasn't required.  In business programming
>I don't think there's much practical value to anything beyond second
>year high school algebra

(I'm not picking on Joel. He just was the first that I saw mention high-school 
algebra.)

I don't get the whole problem in this thread. We _ARE_ talking about 
high-school/remedial algebra.

This isn't even college math. It's basic fundamental algebra stuff. 
Distributive, commutative and associative properties along with a couple of the 
most basic factoring operations to simplify and eliminate terms -- that's all 
it is. That's what high-school/remedial algebra is.

A business programmer should be more than mildly surprised when shown the 
transformed equation. And no accounting type should be surprised in the 
slightest.

You put the original formula and the transformed formula into a comment block 
and then forget about it.

I don't see the problem with it. And I _really_ don't want to know what the 
comments might be from the many list members who are outside the U.S.A.

Tom Liotta