Re: translation in /free??

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It worries me when I see these kinds of precision expected in what 
appears to be fairly large number.

It looks like minutes are being divided by 60 to give fractional hours, 
and then the number of calls are being divided by that answer?  Would it 
make more accuracy to do the math the other way around?  Divide the 
calls by the big number, and then convert that by dividing by 60?   Or 
divide in the other direction and give an answer of average minutes/call?



Sharon Wintermute wrote:
> When you do it this way, it does not adjust the time/60, it will use the entire 
> result. so 40/60 will use .6666666666667 out to some signficance I don't 
> remember.
> We do it this way in order to get the "most" out of the calculation before we 
> adjust the final number.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Wintermute 
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:34 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: translation in /free??
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> I would manually translate it to 
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> eval(h) @callshr = @Calls / (@time / 60); 
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> The half adjust works fine this way. 
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> It will adjust based on the definition of @CallShr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jay Vaughn
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:22 PM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: translation in /free??
>
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> @TIME         DIV(H)    60            WKHRMN            5 2 
> @CALLS        DIV(H)    WKHRMN        @CALLSHR
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> How would this be translated to /free?  From what I understand, %DIV does 
> not support decimals.  Also there is the issue with the "half adjust"...
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> Thanks,
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> Jay Vaughn
> iSeries Senior Programmer/Analyst
> RateWatch
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