And lo on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:40:03 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:32:41 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull>  
>> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> OK, so as you probably worked out, green = good, pink = bad.  
>>> (Unbelievably, Excel appears to lack the ability to draw light red.)
>>  I thought light red was pink?
>
> I used to think that too. Now I realise that "pink" is actually light  
> purple. (I.e., it's like light red, but with more blue in it...)

No that would be the colour known as 'light purple' pink is red with equal  
amounts of blue and green, purple is blue with more red then green. At  
least that's how I bloody well mix it.

>>> The three points on the right of the chart are all Intel Core 2  
>>> [Extreme] Quad CPUs. That amonolous-looking middle point might  
>>> actually be incorrect. [It's the PassMark rating for an "Intel Core2  
>>> Extreme Q6800 @ 2.98 GHz" together with the ebuyer price for an "Intel  
>>> Core 2 Extreme Quad QX68002.98 GHz". I'm not 100% sure those are the  
>>> same product.]
>>  Either that one or the 4000+ passmark looks anomalous.
>

>
> Either the QX6800 is really over-priced, or the X9650 is really cheap...
>
>> What does the trendline look like?
>
> Uh... good luck with that. ;-)

You're using Excel. Pick the points, right-click and add a trendline, with  
that data try an exponentional or moving average.

-- 
Phil Cook

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