In a message dated 9/8/2007 5:04:15 PM Central Daylight Time,
ZoboHerald@aol.com writes:
> I may have missed something (possibly "the joke"?), but my limited
> mathematics skills make those two numbers to be pretty much the same. ;)
>
That reminds me of the joke about a physicist, a mathematician and an
engineer were each give the same task: Find the volume of a spherical object.
The
physicist submerged the object in water and measured the amount of water
displaced. The mathematician measured the diameter and calculated the volume
using
the 4/3(pi)R2.
The engineer looked it up in the data sheet.
A mathematician would say that they are equivilent but an engineer would say
that .010 implies a higher level of precision than .01.
Dave
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