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Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce (LONG: FROM MODMAN)

#1933
From: Ronald C. Antony
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...)

:-)

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