Dunno, I ain't a mathematician or english major, just a dumb fire marshal.

Duane Johnson, PE
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Office of Research Services 
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-----Original Message-----
From: rongreenman . [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: heat collector vs heat director

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
>
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