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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
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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 :-
>
> Country Population Gold Medals Popn/Gold Medal
>
> 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
>
>
> 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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