Re: [seul-edu] Phase 1 Science Evaluation

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Just saw your other post Charlie, sorry to jump on you.

- cameron

Cameron Miller wrote:
> 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.
>
> - cameron