| Re: Gold Medal Bug in IDL arithmetic? [message #40733] |
Mon, 30 August 2004 08:24 |
Dick Jackson
Messages: 347
Registered: August 1998
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"Andrew Cool" <andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote in message
news:c6d70400.0408291517.248509b8@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
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> I've just been using IDL v6.1 to calculate some simple arithmetic
> at the command line. Here are my results :-
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> Country Population Gold Medals Popn/Gold Medal
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> USA 294 mill 35 8.4
> China 1,300 mill 32 40.6
> Russia 144 mill 27 5.3
> Australia 20 mill 17 1.2
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> Is there a bug in IDL, or is it just simply true that pound for pound,
> Aussie athletes cream the so called Superpowers?
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> 'spose I better report a bug in IDL to RSI?
Fascinating, isn't it? For those interested, a Google search on [olympic
medal per capita] brings up some good news results, and there's a great
nations-of-the-world statistics site with maps for this kind of thing
(e.g.: Sports - Olympic medals - Total (Sydney 2000) (per capita)) and
much more:
http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/Sports
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
Cheers,
--
-Dick
Dick Jackson / dick@d-jackson.com
D-Jackson Software Consulting / http://www.d-jackson.com
Calgary, Alberta, Canada / +1-403-242-7398 / Fax: 241-7392
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| Re: Gold Medal Bug in IDL arithmetic? [message #40737 is a reply to message #40733] |
Sun, 29 August 2004 17:23  |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996
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andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au (Andrew Cool) writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just been using IDL v6.1 to calculate some simple arithmetic
> at the command line. Here are my results :-
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> Country Population Gold Medals Popn/Gold Medal
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> USA 294 mill 35 8.4
> China 1,300 mill 32 40.6
> Russia 144 mill 27 5.3
> Australia 20 mill 17 1.2
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> Is there a bug in IDL, or is it just simply true that pound for pound,
> Aussie athletes cream the so called Superpowers?
I tried normalizing the medal count by gross domestic product, but for
Australia I got +Inf. That must be a bug in IDL too.
Craig
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