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- From: allen%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Allen Sanderson)
- Subject: Re: Steepness
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:50:34 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.225034.22822@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Nov18.195849.10259@netcom.com> <1992Nov19.015723.16466@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Nov23.154122.20619@gasco.com>
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- mos@gasco.com (Mark O'Shea x1527) writes:
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- >Please excuse my apparent ignorance. I thought that the percent of a grade
- >was the number of feet down divided by the number of feet forward,
- >ie, a 6% grade is 6 feet down per 100 feet forward.
- >Can someone tell me which.
-
- Oh no not this question again. You must have missed the discussion
- on this last spring. Not to worry you'll find that 33% of the
- responses will be wrong, 33% will be right for a different question
- and 33% will correct. The hard part will be figuring out which
- response is the correct one. Me, I'm in the remaining 1% who refuse
- to show their ignorance by answering this question but responded.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Allen R. Sanderson
-
- Salt Lake City, Oootah
-
-
- "Great spirits have always encounter violent opposition from
- mediocre minds."
- - Albert Einstein
-