[Milsurplus] GRC109/R-1004A arrived!

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Wed Sep 14 17:08:42 EDT 2011


Problem with this approach is that, without understanding, it GIGO.

I've had people bring me answers to seven decimal places fromn a 'puter.

Very nice, but they are off by a factor of 10,000 or so. And, far worse,
they will go to the wall to defend their (WRONG) results!

-John

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[snip]

> Entering numbers into a spreadsheet to compute something useful
> doesn't strike me as a bad thing if it frees up time or brain cells to do
> something more interesting than recomputing someone else's equations.
>
> 73, ian K3IMW




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