Resend: Loan payments vs financial calculator mismatch

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Robert Heller wrote:
> A "fencepost error" is a computer science term (well a geeky term) that
> refers to an off-by-one error.  Imagine this problem: you need to build
> a fence that is 100 meters long with fenceposts every 10 meters.  How
> many fenceposts will you need?  Hint: 10 is the wrong answer!

geez Robert - when I was a kid (a long time ago) it was the telegraph pole 
problem...