Duane, Didn't the mathematicians recently (last twenty years or so) redefine the parameters for what is a significant number?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Johnson, Duane (NIH/OD/ORS) [C] < [email protected]> wrote: > John, > > Did you truncate or round to the 12th significant figure? Cuz it's not the > same. > > Duane Johnson, PE > Program Manager > Division of the Fire Marshal (Contractor) > Office of Research Services > National Institutes of Health > 301-496-0487 > > "Protecting Science - One Sprinkler at a Time" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Denhardt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:31 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: heat collector vs heat director > > Slightly disagree; I think 98.2399875875% of the time. :) > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland > Huggins > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: heat collector vs heat director > > That's definitively true 98.24% of the time. > > Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering > American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives > Dallas, TX > http://www.firesprinkler.org > > > > > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Steve Leyton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Tony: > > > > What theoretical mumbo-jumbo do you think the code development community > is relying on? I would offer that nearly all of the substantive changes > to the NFPA standards - at least on the committees I've served - are > empirical. Full-scale fire tests are used exclusively for storage > occupancy protection schemes and sprinkler listings. Product tests and > performance data is the basis for much of the design criteria we take for > granted and is especially important to the inspection, testing and > maintenance standard and also to best practices for commissioning and > acceptance testing. In fact, there isn't much room at all for > "theoretical mumbo-jumbo" at any level of code development. > > > > Respectfully, > > Steve Leyton > > Protection Design & Consulting > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) A problem well stated is a problem half solved. -Charles F. Kettering, inventor and engineer (1876-1958) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
