I was hoping someone that is good with math and loops could help me out. I’m writing a program in Objective C where I need to come up with a way to do a cycle. If you don’t know Objective C I would appreciate any help in pseudo code just to help me figure this out.
What I need is a scale that is based on two dates. I know this will be some sort of loop but not sure how to figure it out.
For instance, lets say that the first date is 5/25/1976 and the second date is 9/25/2009. Every 25 days there will be a “peak” so it’s value will be 100. If I divide 23 in half I get 12 (rounded) so it would be the opposite or “valley” so it’s numerical value would be 0. In other words on the 23rd day it would be at 100 but then on the 24th day it would start going back down and then bottom out 12 days later and then start the cycle back up and top out again at 23 days.
What I need to be able to do is find the numerical value for any given date in between any two given dates.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
value = 100*cos(2*pi*(numDays/25))
Or something like that.