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From: Ronald C. Antony
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 03:34
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 03:34
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>> I am sure most have noticed the 'magnitude' technique. I chose to do >this >> so maybe some people could use this to gauge their feelings about >> whether to investigate the price at all. Some would say that >> $yyyy.xx is way out of range as apposed to $yy.xx or even $yyy.xx. >> I made an assumption here, but that is the way I am doing it. >> I appologise to those who are insulted by this decision, but >> it was something I considered and thought would actually benefit >> you without risking the reprecussions of actual numerical postings. Great, could you use binary numbers for your prices? This way we would only be off by a factor of at most 2 (versus a factor of 10 now...) :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony) Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce (LONG: FROM MODMAN) Message-ID: <1992Sep9.033459.15895@cs.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science References: <1992Aug31.222053.25451@liveware.com> <1992Sep2.164632.2008@metrosoft.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:34:59 GMT Lines: 19