I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.

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Natter 39 and Holding  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gudanov - Sep 28, 2005 11:49:59 am PDT #1681 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Here's the Knowledge Base article on the Median, but you probably already have it: [link]


tommyrot - Sep 28, 2005 11:51:15 am PDT #1682 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

tommyrot, the problem is that I need the data divided by sex, department, degree, and title and then I need the median of the data for each group.

I asked my boss about this. The only non-code way he could think of would be to have a query where you sort and group by sex, department, degree, and title, then within those groupings you would do a count and divide that by two (let's say that = X), then do a subquery to find the Top X records of that grouping, sorted in descending order, and then use the First to find the particular record that would be the median. That makes my head hurt, but if I get a sec. I'll try to see if that would work.

I think code would be easier. How many records are you talking about, anyway?

You could also use Excel to attach to the Access table/query and then use the proper Excep functions to get the median. I don't know if this would get around the issue of the data being too big for Excel or not....


Aims - Sep 28, 2005 11:53:27 am PDT #1683 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

If I actually won that auction and got the phone call, I'd be so tongue tied, it's prolly go like this.

Celeb: Hi, Aimee! Congrats and thanks for the cash to the hurricane survivors.

Me: You're welcome. Oh, god. That wasn't funny or witty or anything. That was boring. I am charming! I swear I am. My daughter's pretty.

Celeb: .....

Me: Yeah. Bye.


Sean K - Sep 28, 2005 11:53:42 am PDT #1684 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I thought Bronsan took himself out of the running.

And yeah, that Cavill guy's face cries out for something rude to be done to it.


§ ita § - Sep 28, 2005 11:55:41 am PDT #1685 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If I actually won that auction and got the phone call, I'd be so tongue tied

You should get tips from msbelle. I think a key one is to have the call take place at 3am.


Emily - Sep 28, 2005 11:57:23 am PDT #1686 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I don't know if this would get around the issue of the data being too big for Excel or not....

The data's not too big. There are too many categories, so I'd have to find the end of each category and do the formula for each one and... honestly, it would probably already be done. But it did seem inefficient.


Aims - Sep 28, 2005 11:59:08 am PDT #1687 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

You should get tips from msbelle. I think a key one is to have the call take place at 3am.

If that were to happen, I'd forget and I'd have paid a bunch of money for Joe to tell Stephanie Romanov to go fuck herself. And not in the nice let him watch way, either.


msbelle - Sep 28, 2005 12:10:08 pm PDT #1688 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I feel like I need to make another Red Cross donation now.


Kate P. - Sep 28, 2005 12:11:25 pm PDT #1689 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

An NHL spokeswoman commented, "This ad is very respectful of women. The woman [dressing the player] is a spiritual and physical trainer for the warrior, and his mentor."

...riiiiiiiight.

And yeah, that Cavill guy's face cries out for something rude to be done to it.

For all values of "rude" that include "lewd", I'm right there with you. t goes to happy place


Sean K - Sep 28, 2005 12:16:49 pm PDT #1690 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Hee!

Well, if it makes you both happy, then do it.