Re: textbook prices (was jaw dropper)

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 07:59 AM 10/8/97 EDT, Thomas Wayburn wrote:
> But, the
> record for me was a book of thermophysical properties of a couple of
> hundred pages and a price tag of $2500.     ( I can't end the previous
> sentence with an exclamation point as you might suppose I mean 2500!, a
> truly astronomical number that might induce fainting spells.)

As an astronomer, I must take offense.  We refer to such numbers as
"governmental"       :)
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