Re: Here's one for you rick

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Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB) <rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(Maximum Of A and B) = (A + B + Abs(A - B)) / 2

(Minimum Of A and B) = (A + B - Abs(A - B)) / 2

Neat tricks. Puzzling out the math (average of the two plus or minus
half
the difference), it makes perfect sense, but I'd never thought of that
before, nor have I ever come across it anywhere until now. Very neat!

Cool trick, alright. But couldn't ever dream of being more efficent than
a standard comparison.

I agree... and sort of said so in a response Michael telling him not to use
the one-liner that is built around it.

Yeah, I noted that.

The only reason I used it was because Michael "challenged" me

Certainly reason enough! <g>

I actually liked my Format statement trick better (where I use the \0 to
force negative values to zero).

That was very cool too. I don't know if I've ever used that outside Excel, myself!
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