SPUG: SPUG meetings -- a least path analysis

[Tim Maher/CONSULTIX]

>> Message submitted at: Fri Oct 15 19:05:57 PDT 1999
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According to William Julien:
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> >>
> The output....
> 
> -->yahoo_maps.plx address.txt
> >From                    To                      Distance
> ------------------      ------------------      ------------------
> William Julien          Fred Hutchinson
> 213 222nd Ave. NE       1100 Fairview Ave. N
> Redmond, WA 98053       Seattle, WA 98109       21.1 miles 41 mins
> 
> Parent's Place          Fred Hutchinson
> 110 128th Ave. NE       1100 Fairview Ave. N
> Bellevue, WA 98004      Seattle, WA 98109       12.0 miles 26 mins
> 
> Pacific Inn Pub         Fred Hutchinson
> 3501 Stone Way North    1100 Fairview Ave. N
> Seattle, Wa. 98103      Seattle, WA 98109       2.3 miles 6 mins
> 
> Gee... I love perl. Now, all we need is an address list and I can
> calculate a "distance quotient" for each of the proposed new SPUG locations.

This is cool!

> 
> Hey Tim! This would make a good class assignment!

Good idea!  I'll try it out in the upcoming on-site class!

. . . Now if yahoo could only give driving *time* estimates, rather than
the poorly correlated driving distances, we'd really have something! 8-} )

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> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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