>>Given a birth day, say 11/02/56 or 11/02/1956, whats the best way to determine the current
>>age of this person?
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>(DATE() - ldBirthday) / 365.24 should get you pretty close.
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>Failing that, you could do a loop with GOMONTH(ldBirthday, 12*i) until you get a date greater than the current one.
Pity that this 'solution' got the three points, as it's not accurate (sorry Garrett :).
We've had a puzzle some time ago. It offers some superior solutions, even superior to Booth's.
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