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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr
- Subject: Re: Can engineering be automated?
- Message-ID: <BD.92Jul30094752@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:47:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.174628.25417@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <19570003@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <Bs5upC.BAq@me.utoronto.ca>
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
- Lines: 15
- In-Reply-To: fil@me.utoronto.ca's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:17:36 GMT
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- in article <Bs5upC.BAq@me.utoronto.ca> fil@me.utoronto.ca (Filippo A. Salustri) writes:
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- > Ok. Real engineering is a creative process of innovation. What do
- >we then call those calculations that you exclude? We can't call them
- >engineering too; but we do talk about them alot, so we really should have a
- >name for them.
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- I call it "doing the math" or "crunching the numbers". Some people
- refer to it as "making the calculations". Do we really need a special
- term for something like this? How about an acronym? 8-)
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- Brice Dowaliby | I may speak fluently, but
- (bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu) | I don't speak for Fluent
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