On the last day of xmas..

[Diver]

You are quite right.

And I made an absolutely classic error: one of the programmer's fencepost errors.

I took 26/12/2007 + 364 presents = last present on 24/12/2008. Which is wrong because present one was given on 26/12/2007, not 27/12/2008.

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Explanation of fencepost errors follows:

1. Between my house and the neighbour's house I want to erect a fence of 1 metre fence panels. The houses are 10 metres apart. How many fenceposts are needed? Nine: because the end two fence panels are secured at the outermost ends against the houses.

2. At the bottom of the garden I want to erect a fence of 1 metre fence panels. The garden is 10 metres wide. How many fence posts are needed? Eleven: because each fence panel needs one at the start but the final panel needs a post at the end as well.

I started counting the days from 27/12/2007 and should have started form 26/12/2007. So on day zero I receive present one therefore on day 363 I receive present 264. Duh!
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Mr Robin, you are indeed the brave red-breasted hero at the top of the Christmas banananana Tree. And I am a plank.

10 coz the correct way to do it is to affix a post at each end to the houses walls. you have to cut down panels as well or use 9 x 1m panels and/or 8 + 1 panel of a width sufficient to allow deduction for the thickness of the intervening post's, should the post thickness be greater than 100mm


You are a plank