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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!rca
- From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce (LONG: FROM MODMAN)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.033459.15895@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug31.222053.25451@liveware.com> <1992Sep2.164632.2008@metrosoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:34:59 GMT
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- >> I am sure most have noticed the 'magnitude' technique. I chose to do
- >this
- >> so maybe some people could use this to gauge their feelings about
- >> whether to investigate the price at all. Some would say that
- >> $yyyy.xx is way out of range as apposed to $yy.xx or even $yyy.xx.
- >> I made an assumption here, but that is the way I am doing it.
- >> I appologise to those who are insulted by this decision, but
- >> it was something I considered and thought would actually benefit
- >> you without risking the reprecussions of actual numerical postings.
-
- Great, could you use binary numbers for your prices? This way we would
- only be off by a factor of at most 2 (versus a factor of 10 now...)
-
- :-)
-
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- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
- in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
- unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
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