OK, all you math wizards, never mind the calculator, (too easy for fingers to slip), there has got to be some forumla for easily figuring that out, no? I realize it's already been totaled, but being the math phobic that I am, I'm interested in learning a better way to do this type of things.
All the Best, Tom[/quote]
Unless I'm missing something obvious, isn't it just "number_of_current_messages" + 1?
Unless you meant the total income to the board, rather than the cost of each message? In which case it would be:
(number_of_posts + 1) x ( number of posts / 2)
So 4 posts would be (4+1) x (4/2) = 5 x 2 = 10 = 1+2+3+4
7 posts would be (7+1) x (7/2) = 8 x 3.5 = 28 = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7
(Talk about being a geek!
[/quote]Yep, I was talking about the latter, which you have explained here. Seems simple enough, yet I never would have figured it out on my own, (well, I could do the calculator thing, for each post).
All the Best, Tom
