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saden1 · 12-15-2005, 02:13 PM

I was having a hard time with the following formula last week as I was trying to calculate the original size of content encoded in Base64. It looks simple but it took me couple of hours to figure it out! Any of you fellas want to take a crack at it?

Equation:
((x + 3 - (x MOD 3)) / 3) * 4 = y

Question:
What is x?

Hint: Just do simple algebra to get x on one side all by itself.

12-15-2005, 02:13 PM	#10
saden1 MVP Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 46 Posts: 10,069	Re: record I was having a hard time with the following formula last week as I was trying to calculate the original size of content encoded in Base64. It looks simple but it took me couple of hours to figure it out! Any of you fellas want to take a crack at it? Equation: ((x + 3 - (x MOD 3)) / 3) * 4 = y Question: What is x? Hint: Just do simple algebra to get x on one side all by itself.