From celebrity eavesdropper Landon Curt Noll. I'm guessing he solved the .239 problem with continued fractions, vs the mediant method in the paper.

For your math-fun folks:

What's the quickest way to bat .239?

The answer depends on your method of rounding. A baseball batting average of 0.239 does not mean that hits/bats == 0.239. It means that the fraction is close to 0.239. One could bat 0.239 by: if you round up: hitting 5 out of 21 at-bats (== 0.238095...) if you round down or to the nearest: hitting 11 out of 46 at-bats (== 0.239130...) I believe that the 11/46 ratio (instead of 5/21) would be considered 0.239 by most baseball stats people as the quickest way to bat 0.239. chongo (Landon Curt Noll) /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/index.html =-= p.s. My 1st programming job out of college was working for a major league baseball team on scouting and stats program. I got the job in part because I knew how to code, and in part because I had little interest in baseball and thus would not fall into the pattern of their previous coder who was more interested in collecting autographs. As a result, I learned about the sport's less glamorous business practices as well as how people were treated outside of the media spotlight ... And then there was hacking the "jumbo-tron. I helped write some "video games" to play on the huge stadium screen on non-game days. One of which caught the attention of the marketing department and became a regular game-day feature: some dots racing around a track driven by a clock seeded simple RNG. They would give out prizes to a stadium section of their "dot" won ... and people in the office would wager big $'s on the outcome of the race ... crazy!