Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:57

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In article <1992Apr16.152028.20665@kodak.kodak.com> vec@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Vance Cochrane) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.135924.15805@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
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>> Yes, I was annoyed that von Neumann's contributions were ignored.  But then
>>what can you expect from a program that says a transistor is 100 times
>>ligher than a vacuum tube -- that would give it negative weight by my
>>calculations.
>>
>Sorry, but (+)/(+) is not < 0 !

 Sorry, but "lighter" implies a subtraction.
		  ^^
 Yes, I know many people get this wrong.  But a computer is a precise
tool, and programs about computers ought to be precise in their use of
numbers.

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