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yes it works great, and actually, it seems HxD rounds to the nearest thousandth. now i am computing 10.4279696941376 % while hxd is computing 10.43 %

Also the tr/\xff// method is ALOT faster so thank you for sharing that little bit of info :)
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by james28909 (Deacon) on Aug 05, 2014 at 05:03 UTC
    and also i want to thank you guys and gals for helping me thru my way, i have learned a good bit but i am far from where i want to be. but thanks again for evenryones help :)