Re: 'Nuther Programming Challenge

On 4/2/25 7:16 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

To get a taste of creating a program that implements government
procedures, I challenge all to write a C function (or the equivalent
in some other language) to calculate the federal withholding tax.
 The procedures are spelled out here:
 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf
 Don't forget that we are dealing with MONEY, i.e. BIG BUCKS.
Therefore, the use of decimal floating point according to
IEEE 754-2008 is required:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision
  So get going!
 If you get stuck just contact know-it-all rblowman.  He is
a personal associate of Elon Musk.
 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

   HA HA HA ! That's what so few seem to GET !
   Huge, old, govt bureaucracy with a mass of
   rules tweaked and re-tweaked to please various
   pols and pressure groups. You need a good CPA
   or dedicated student at minimum to kind-of
   understand it.
   PROBABLY similar issues in the UK/EU.
   Oh, and it's always 'Kind Of' - even the
   agencies themselves don't know how all the
   rules work out anymore. SSA - awful. IRS,
   way way beyond awful. AM hoping Trump nukes
   the existing IRS. A new, plain, deal is now
   BADLY needed. The bureaucracy was bad enough,
   but all the 'fixes' created by pols and their
   favorite donors ..... !!!