Ninety-Fifth Percentile Calculation for Bandwidth

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Published on 2010-03-16T11:54:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 11:56 UTC
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I am trying to calculate the bandwidth of my current internet connection. I am pulling the current input and output transfer rate via snmp. If the argument to the following function is a sorted ascending list of the the some of each input and output sample, is this the right way to calculate 95th percentile?

sub ninetyFifth {
    #Expects Sorted Data
    my $ninetyFifthLine = (@_ * .95) - 1;
    return $_[$ninetyFifthLine];
}

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