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Article #258Re: Detroit Edison stupidity
From: Major Lee Obvious
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:20
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:20
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In article <5d86081e.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> Jim.Rees@umich.edu writes:
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>You may want to disregard the percent change figure. Integer roundoff
>errors make it pretty much useless. For example, my latest bill lists it as
>22%, but the correct figure is actually 28%.
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>With arithmetic like that, I wonder how accurate their calculations are for
>arriving at the amount of money I owe them.
Why do I have this image of Lilly Tomlin in my head going
around disconnecting small countries and saying "We don't care, we're
the phone company."
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