[ltp] Re: Re: help in troubleshooting ACPI drain with 2.6.10 please

[Eben King]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Jan-Hendrik Benter wrote:

> > > result already gives the final value:
> > >
> > > result = (after - before) * 3600 / seconds
> >
> >                             ^      ^
> >
> > Those are where the error is.  You're computing "result = energy * 1/time"
> > when power is "energy / time".  It needs to be "result = (after - before) /
> > (seconds / 3600)".

Yep, x * 1/y = x/y.  Oopsie.

> I am sorry for starting all this, because I got messed up with unit labels 
> (because this is not helping to solve the real problem), but, isn't
> 
> 1 / (seconds / 3600 ) <=> 1 * 3600 / seconds

That's fine, I agree with that.  Now, why do we get different answers?

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