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Title: Programming/Maths Problem
Post by: ahref on July 29, 2011, 11:18:41 PM

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone could help me with a mathsy programmy problem. Its been driving me nuts:

Given an infinite number of colums, where odd numbered columns have x cells and even numbered columns have y cells. Each cell can hold one object, how do i figure out the column number of the nth item.

For further clarification and example;
x = 4
y = 3
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At the moment i do some stupid while loop to work this out, Id love it if there was a one liner, or simple maths formula. Speed is essential here :(

Thanks for your help guys :)

Title: Re: Programming/Maths Problem
Post by: Night_Runner on July 30, 2011, 12:25:34 AM

You could do something like this http://ge.tt/8F1qJO6?c (http://ge.tt/8F1qJO6?c)

Title: Re: Programming/Maths Problem
Post by: ahref on July 30, 2011, 12:41:40 AM

How the hell did you figure that out :D?

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