Sorry, folks, in my haste I guess I ended up missing a piece in the statement below. So, please allow me to amend that (between '***...***' below):
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:34:53 Ma Be wrote: ... >For your info, Jim, I did a similar study of this type of issue concerning the change >of grading systems in North America from the near unanimous hideous 4.0-alfa grade >scale to a decimal one, and I discovered based on my assumptions that regardless of >how heavy the initial costs were, **provided** savings were made year after year >operationally (as you conceded it could be the case!), corrected for the discount >rates, evidently***, the SI would come ahead!*** This can even be shown >mathematically to be true *regardless*!... Sorry about that... Marcus Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
