Detroit Edison stupidity

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3 total messages Started by Jim Rees Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:59

#257

Author: Jim Rees
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:59

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If you get a bill from Detroit Edison, you may have noticed the section at
the bottom where it lists your average daily electricity consumption (in Kwh
per day, a strange unit for power).  It also lists the percentage increase
or decrease from the same period the previous year.

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%.

With arithmetic like that, I wonder how accurate their calculations are for
arriving at the amount of money I owe them.

Re: Detroit Edison stupidity

#258

Author: Major Lee Obvious
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%.
>
>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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Re: Detroit Edison stupidity

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Author: Mike O'Connor
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:34

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In article <5d86081e.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> Jim.Rees@umich.edu writes:

: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%.

I noticed that.  If you've been at your residence for less than a
year, the usage numbers that Edison provides are bogus as well.  A
couple times, they indicated that yes, you've been there less than a
year, no statistics are available, etc. and a couple times, ludicrous
usage numbers are listed, which I'm pretty sure aren't from the
previous tenant.

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