bkubicek (5/24/2010)
Sorry for the misdirection. I thought it was what made this question fun. I found a problem just like this in some code I inherited from some previous employees. I spent two days digging through some complicated code just to end up at a division problem. That is why I liked this one. It makes you feel you are done once you make it through the date stuff, but then you didn't notice the integer division.Anyway, I am glad you all spent the time to try and figure it out. Perhaps the next question I think up won't have quite as much misdirection.
Ben
I have to say I was a little disappointed not to find "pink slip" as one of the options. That was the thought I kept having as I was trying to unravel the overly complicated date math. I am glad to hear they are previous employees. 😉
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