Re: [Mid] ARG! (was re: Results of Sanity test)

does 8550 beans qualify as a hill?

             Conal

>From: Ron.James@carrier.utc.com (Ron James)
>Reply-To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>Subject: Re: [Mid] ARG! (was re: Results of Sanity test)
>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:25:42 -0400
>
>
>Midair wrote:
> >Be careful, or I'll post a proof showing that:
> >0.99999999... = 1 exactly.
> >Not that the limit is 1, but that it is equivalent to 1, the same
> >exact number.
>
>
>*blink* *blink*
>
>Hah, good try! But I'm too far gone to be tripped up by mere facts.
>
>I remember having trouble with the concept of significant digits in
>Physics class. Oh, I would dutifully follow it, but I could never
>accept it on an instinctive level. I mean, if you divide 8550 beans
>by 25, you get 342 beans. If you round the original count to 8600 so
>it has the same significant digits as the 25, then you get 344 beans.
>One way or another, somebody is getting cheated out of two beans.
>And, darn it, that's just not right. It's not right, I say!
>
>
>Edward the Quiet
>(Who has had far too long of a day at work.)
>From: Ron.James@carrier.utc.com (Ron James)
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