[Tutor] Re: Basic terminology

[Bill Mill]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:34:55 +0100, Roel Schroeven
<rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Bill Mill wrote:
> > However, where will it be pointing in 16 hours? Well, in 12 hours it
> > will be at the one, then four more hours later it will be pointing at
> > the five. This can be represented as:
> >
> > 1 + (16 % 12) = 1 + 4 = 5
> 
> Correcter is
> 
> (1 + 16) % 12 = 17 % 12 = 5

d'oh! thanks for the correction.

> 
> > In general, the hour at some point in the future will be:
> >
> > (start time) + (hours in the future % 12)
> 
> (start time + hours in the future) % 12
> 

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com