Daniel Hutmacher has a painful but realistic problem to solve:
Here’s an example customer. You’ll notice right off the bat that we’re sending this customer an invoice every day on the 20th of the month. To add some complexity, the customer will arbitrarily pay parts of the invoiced amount over time, and to add insult to injury, the banking interface won’t tell us which invoice the customer is paying for, so we’ll just decide that each payment goes towards the oldest outstanding invoice.
Our task is to calculate how many days have elapsed, for each invoice, from invoice date to payment in full.
Daniel has an excellent solution to the problem, so check it out.