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Subject: Re: A little puzzle.
From: Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name>
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On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 13:29:48 UTC+1, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> writes: 
> > On Monday, 28 November 2022 at 16:22:38 UTC+1, Tim Rentsch wrote: 
> >> Julio Di Egidio <an unrepentant google groups user> writes: 
> >>>>> On Monday, 21 November 2022 at 21:45:34 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> [...]
> >>>>>> Consider any ordered measure that "wraps round" -- bearings in 
> >>>>>> degrees, minutes in the hour, indeed hours in either the 12 or 
> >>>>>> 24 hour clock. The problem is to determine if a given value is 
> >>>>>> in the sub-range specified by a start and an en value. 
> >>> 
> >>> Argh! But you should not have snipped that "beware 
> >>> of bugs", that was the most important part!! ;) 
> >> 
> >> It's your job to beware of bugs, not mine. 
> > 
> > I didn't know you were paying me for production level code:
> 
> You are under no obligation to post bug-free code. Similarly I 
> am under no obligation to correct bugs in your code.

That is not what I said: indeed "beware of bugs" is a paraphrase
of Knuth for your info, and what that means.  Morover, modulo
my mistakes, which is another story, my code *is* bug free, just
apparently you are confused about the whole what is what.

>  But if you 
> want your postings to be taken seriously it's important to put

I am certainly not interested in any such cheap abusive "psychology".

> The question can be answered without using any of subtraction,
> remainder, or mod,

No, it cannot.  But feel free to prove me wrong.

> and more than one solution has been posted 
> demonstrating that property. Perhaps you missed those answers.

The answer by Paul N is equivalent to mine, but I have given a
formalization, plus a courtesy implementation of MOD for those
playing with a language that does not have it built-in.

And my formalization was not so much to improve on Paul's
answer anyway, it was more out of the irritation of the several
posts by you and others with the deranged morals but not
even able to state an interface, let alone write few lines of
code that are not imply a horrible mess when at all correct.

How long have you being doing this job?  You come up as yet
another clueless arrogant ass.

Julio