What's the Affinity Judgement? (In English)

Internet affinity judgement

Although the fortune uses only email addresses/URLs now, the following specs may be available in future;

• to judge the affinity between two computers loving each other (e.g. NIS server and client, ...) using their Internet nicknames,
• to help finding new gentle and kind owner for poor computer,
• to judge the affinity between program archive and ftp server, etc.

Method

This affinity judgement method is similar to the one that many Japanese elementary school girl do. See the figure below. A girl writes down her name and her favorite boy's name in ASCII code (ASCII code is a number which expresses a character in computer sysytems --- yes, of course, we learn ASCII code in Japanese elementary school!). The neighbor two numbers are added (in the original, only the lowest 1 digit is survibe), until two numbers are remained.

In this fortune, all the neighbor two numbers are repeatedly added until one number is remained, and the lowest 2 digit is used as the ``affinitieness'' percentile (00% minimum -- 99% maximum). In addition to this, this method uses ``+'' symbol for concatinator between two names, and the names are the email addresses/URLs of your and your partner.

Figure: to calculate affinitieness between ``taroh'' and ``hoge'':

(in original method)
 t   a   r   o   h   h   o   g   e
116  97 114 111 104 104 111 103 101
(6) (7) (4) (1) (4) (4) (1) (3) (1)
  | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | /
   3   1   5   5   8   5   4   4
    | / | / | / | / | / | / | /
              ......
          | / | / | / | /
           5   8   7   7
            | / | / | /
             3   5   4
              | / | /
               8   9  =>  89[%]
 
(in this fortune)
 t   a   r   o   h   +   h   o   g   e
116  97 114 111 104  43 104 111 103 101
 | /  | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | /
 213  211 225 215 147 147 215 214 204
   | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | /
               ......
           6550  5806  5529  5844
              |  /  |  /  |  /
             12356 11335  11373
                 |  /  |  /
                23691  22708
                    | /
                   46399  =>  99[%]

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