We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100 percent. How about achieving 103 percent? Here's a little math that might prove helpful in the future. What makes life 100 percent?

If A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Y=25 and Z=26

Then,

H A R D W O R K
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98% only

K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96% only

But,

A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100%

And,

B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%

So, it stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you close, but attitude and bullshit will put you over the top.

I expect you don't (as Rhett Butler would put it) "give a damn", but, I wrote a little program in BASIC (you remember BASIC!)

10 ' AM.BAS - LRB - 1/4/2002
12 ' An "alphamorph" is a word or phrase which "morphs" into a
13 ' sequence of numbers in [1 ..26]. Their sum is the numerical
14 ' value of the word. For example: LOVE becomes 12 + 15 + 22 + 5 = 54
20 INPUT "Enter string, eg. HARD WORK "; HW$
30 FOR I% = 1 TO LEN(HW$)
40 AM% = AM% + INSTR("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", MID$(HW$, I%, 1))
50 NEXT I%
60 PRINT AM%
70 END

So ... whenever you need to check your value, just run am.exe (below)

Run program which shows numerical value of word or phrase

Click to see BASIC source of program

Click to see 4DOS .btm source (by Howard Goldstein)