Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:52:30 +0000 (UTC)

Randy Howard wrote:

> In article <cvt52d$m88$1@sparta.btinternet.com>,
> am.swallow@btopenworld.com says...
>
>>5% of the people produce 50% of the outcome.
>>20% of the people produce 80% of the outcome.
>>The remaining 80% produce the remaining 20% of the outcome.
>
>
> Brought to you by the implementers of the Pentium floating
> point bug.
>
> 5% + 20% + 80% = ?

The 20% people includes the 5% people as a subgroup.

Or put a second way
20% - 5% = 15% of the people produce 80% - 50% = 30% of the output.

Normally it is not worthwhile having special rules for this 15%. Write
the rules for either the 5% or the 20%.

Andrew Swallow