How to make it understand this?

[bittiann4ever]

It said to
height times eight divided by 288 and
add 1/8 of an in for each 10 years over 30.
so like on 40, 50, 60...etc

[MYST]

Sorry.... what!?

[jsmith]

I second that.

[bittiann4ever]

the question i have to answer with a program said to take the
height times eight divided by 288 to get a persons jacket size.
Then take the persons age and for ever 10 yrs over 30 add an 1/8 of an inch to the jacket size.
I dont know how to make the computer understand to only add an 1/8 if the person is 40, 50 ....etc

[jsmith]

Well, a cheap, bad solution is:

if( age > 120 ) // not supporting anyone older than 129, sorry...
   height = height + 8 * (1.0/8.0);
else if( age > 110 )
   height = height + 7 * (1.0/8.0);
// etc... 

I'll leave it up to you to optimize this.

In the formula x * (1.0/8.0) you can easily express x in terms
of age if you think about it a bit.

[bittiann4ever]

so im pretty slow at this but how would it understand that they numbers it needed were 40, or 50 exactly?

[chrisname]

so im pretty slow at this but how would it understand that they numbers it needed were 40, or 50 exactly?

think about it a bit.