Re^2: Average Age of the Perl Monk

Awesome!

Just curious, what did you use to calculate your average age?? :D

Good one. I thought about the title Age of the average Perl Monk but then I thought I would ge the reply, "What consitutes an "Average" Perl Monk? Which I think would be another great question.

Average is 37 here! (Note: the same as my average college midterm scores)
Thanks!

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Re^3: Average Age of the Perl Monk - Poll? by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 21, 2005 at 15:18 UTC
I took the sum of all of my current ages (43), and divided it by the number of current ages (1). It was simple enough that I could do it in my head. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Average Age of the Perl Monk - Poll? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 21, 2005 at 22:14 UTC
merlyn, Alternatively, your average age could be 22. Take the sum of all your ages and divide by the number of ages. `print ave_age( 43 ); sub ave_age { ($_[0] * $_[0] + $_[0]) / 2 / $_[0] }` [download] Incidently, my average age using this formula is 14.5 which assumes you were never 0 years old. Cheers - L~R	[reply] [d/l]