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by nostromo 4995 days ago
4.5 is halfway between 0 and 9. Halfway between 1 and 9 is 1+(9-1)/2 = 5
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JoeAltmaier 4995 days ago
Nu-uh. By that math, halfway between 1 and 2 is.... 1?!
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jlgreco 4995 days ago 

  1+(2-1)/2
  1+(1)/2
  1.5
It only equals 1 if you are using ints ;) I do that more often than I care to admit, I blame programming.
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kylebrown 4995 days ago
his formula is correct. you made a mistake in the order of operations.
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