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Re: [seul-edu] Phase 1 Science Evaluation

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From: Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:39:07 -0700
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Charlie Cosse wrote:

	Not even going there: Unit conversion is not worthy of a computer program.

Wasn't it a human unit conversion error which caused a Mars mission failure? Perhaps if someone had typed "units" at their command line everything would have turned out allright.

Programs for unit conversion generally store more significant digits than the table of conversion factors one is likely to memorize. At the very least they can be used to check ones work.

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