On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bill Fairchild <bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote: > And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us > professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is > 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10. 2+2 no longer = 5; now > it equals chartreuse. > > Fortunately architects and engineers know how to use mathematically accurate > and precise terminology when describing the bridges they design and build, or > we would have a lot more cars falling off of collapsing bridges. > > Bill Fairchild
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
