How Fast? How Many?

[hap]

LOL! I'll defer to your math because I really don't .............................! (again LOL)

Regardless, he tyed those flies at a very fast speed ..... Beep Beep!

Allan

I am confused enough to have a degree with majors in Math and English Lit...
art

[Betty Hiner]

Meaning of a quality that could be sold in a shop.

Oh, that part I know! It's tying the flies at a rapid rate, and still keeping them "saleable"!! Don't think I'd get near as far as those tyers!

[EdD]

If they wanted it to be a psychological test, they cold have made the standard "gift grade" flies and let the tyers pick which of their flies were good enough.
But that's a whole different thing.

Ed

[Uncle Jesse]

I figured since they gave them a box of 100 hooks, that's about how many flies they tied.

Me I bought two boxes of 50 about September and still have half of them left.

[tlerm]

Hi Hap - Would you please clarify your method of mathematical calculations? If I do something that yields 100 widgets and you do that same thing and your effort yields 150 (same widgets), then you are producing at a rate of 1-1/2 times faster then I did (100 x 1.5 = 150). Another way of saying it is: You're doing that action 150% faster then I am.
I believe your calculation yielded 115 widgets because you've multiplied my result by 2.5 which is a 250% increase. Bad! Here's yet another example: On a perfectly straight unending road you're driving your car at 60 mph for 1 hour. Therefore, you travel 60 miles in that hour. John drives his car at 1-1/2 (1.5) times your speed over that same road for the same time. How fast was he driving and many miles did he travel?

Spoof - Elsie Darbee said that a 'professional' speed for tying Catskill dry flies is something like 12 an hour. That sounds about right.

Maybe this will help.

• If he tied 50% faster than you and you tied 100 flies, then he would have tied 150 flies (100 + 100 x .50 = 150)
• If he tied 100% faster than you and you tied 100 flies, then he would have tied 200 flies (100 + 100 x 1.00 = 200)
• If he tied 150% faster than you and you tied 100 flies, then he would have tied 250 flies (100 + 100 x 1.50 = 250)

Using your math above saying that he tied 50% faster would yield 100 x 0.5 = 50 (again assuming you tied 100 flies). Well, obviously that can't be right because he tied more than you. If he tied 50% faster then he tied 150. So if he tied 150% faster, it has to be more than 150.

Don't worry about it though. Almost everybody gets this mixed up.

[tlerm]

Ahhhh, very nicely done, Allan! That is keeping at it even if the kid kicked your butt!

As a long-time technical writer, semi-mathematician, and curmudgeon; you did hit one of my pet peeves! If he tied 1 1/2 times faster than you he would have tied 115. He did tie 1 1/2 times AS FAST as you and that is noteworthy in and of itself.

The fly currently in my Nor-Vise has about 6 hours in it and has been completely restarted several times... So I am trying (and tying) the other end of the spectrum... I expect to get it done this evening... And have two more to do for a presentation box. And I spent the afternoon building the block I will turn it from.

It's one of mine too!