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Re: supplementary S.I. units



Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:32:53 -0500
From: trappe@physics.utexas.edu (Karl Trappe)

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:36:40 -0400 (EDT) "Donald E. Simanek"
<dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu> writes:

To students, I'll usually say, "To write 12 = 1 is surely absurd.

I seem to recall that such statements are used in writing computer
programs in "BASIC"

Herb
Or n=n+1 to increment a variable (in Fortran?). Karl

So = in programming is not equal to = in math -- a fine example of
precision gratuitously destroyed. (Yes, it's Fortran.)

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