From: ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk   
      
   I wonder if there are any real posters here?  Let's see...   
      
   I came across a trivial programming task that must have been solved a   
   thousand times by other programmers, but it had never crossed my path   
   until yesterday.  I must be feeling my age because I made a real hash of   
   tackling it at first.  Anyway, I thought it might be of interest.   
      
   Consider any ordered measure that "wraps round" -- bearings in degrees,   
   minutes in the hour, indeed hours in either the 12 or 24 hour clock.   
   The problem is to determine if a given value is in the sub-range   
   specified by a start and an en value.   
      
   I was specifically concerned with integer values where the sub-range   
   includes the start value but excludes the end value.   
      
   Though I am not sure this merits the term "puzzle", I suggest that   
   solutions be posted with some spoiler protection.  Do all the news   
   readers used by programmers (or ex programmers) all respect the presence   
   of a form-feed character...   
      
   ... like this?  Because that's my favourite way, rather than posting   
   lots of dummy lines before the solution.   
      
   --   
   Ben.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)