Fw: Clipping values

In response to a private email from someone else on this list, I thought I should send the following clarification.

I have a table with four values which are constantly lowered by user action. These four values must rise over time, in five minute intervals. The core of the function, in pseudo-code, would look something like this:

FOREACH row IN SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE some_percentages are less than 1
LOOP
new_percentage = num_intervals * .1 > 1
? 1
: num_intervals * .1;
UPDATE some_table SET some_percentages = new_percentage WHERE id = row.id
END LOOP

But, of course, doing that for four percentages (with at least one having a different increment value than .1)

Cheers,
Ovid