Which is why the teaching of the slide rule was a great advantage since you, the operator, had to put the right order of ten in place.
Calculators do not help one form a view of the expected answer. rgds Martyn -----Original Message----- From: Owen Jenkins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 June 2012 09:48 To: mogtalk2 Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Diff Temp snip... As one who marks student papers, the frequency of order of magnitude errors is greater with the metric system than with USC or Imperial, since the last two make them think about the value of the answer. In other words, the main problem with the metric system is that the answers tend to look the same, so it's easy to be out by an order of magnitude or two and not notice. Cheers, Owen. ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
