Centering lines on reports...

[Fairlight]

Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
> Fairlight wrote:
> > 
> > The honourable and venerable John Esak spoke thus:
> > >        Then: mid(aa,"40"-len(ab)/"2",len(ab))=ab
> > 
> > John, shouldn't that be "80"-len(ab)/"2" rather than 40?  By your formula,
> > you'd be centering on the 20th column, wouldn't you?
> 
> Division has higher precedence than addition.  Therefore, John's code is
> equivalent to:
> 
>     "40" - ( len(ab)/"2" )

Yeah, I just read the other replies and figured out that same difference.
So my usual method of:

(80 - length) / 2
     is equivalent to
40 - (length / 2)

Same result, different ordering.

Okay, so I read the order of precedence wrong.  I guess I'm just used to
the way I've calculated it for 25 years.  :)  I probably wouldn't have
missed it with explicit parentheses, but that's my fault, not John's.

Sorry about that, John.

mark->
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