-------- In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>Indeed. As any engineering time estimate, you need to multiply with pi. >At work, we engineers divide our estimates with pi before giving it to >the project managers, as they will multiply with pi before putting it >into their time-plan. :) Interesting. In computing we make a random guess at the duration. The manager is supposed to multiply the numeric part by two and shift the unit to the next higher one. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
