[Rhodes22-list] Don't Piss Off Engineers

[Bud]

Seems like we are not the only ones trying to figure it out...

http://beerandnews.wordpress.com/2007/01/03/checkmate-randall-patrick-munroe/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q

-Bud

Joseph Hadzima wrote:

>Let e = 2.7182818284590452353602875
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>The sum of 1/2^n where n = 1..+infinity is just shy of 1, 
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>so the we'll assume the +.002 should round that to 1.0 
>(the "assume" is the engineer's version).
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>remember that
>   PI = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795
>   i  = the imaginary value SQRT( -1 )
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>then e ^( i * PI) = -1 (see Euler's Equation )
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>thus, -1 + (almost) 1 + 0.002  should be about zero.
>
>Once upon a time there was a case where someone owed zero
>dollars to some company, they didn't stop getting nasty
>grahms until they wrote a check for $0.00 (but then I hear
>this story when I was only knee high to a grasshopper, so I
>doubt this is the check).
>
>
>BTW, does anyone know the difference between an Engineer,
>and a Physicist?
>
>
>The Physicist calims that E = mc^2
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>The Engineer knows that E = mc^2 +/- 3 db 
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>:-)
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>
>Is everyone ready to do their taxes now?????
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>--- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I asked Fan to figure out how much the check was for but
>>she
>>couldn't/wouldn't solve it, you figure it out.  Brad
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>HADZ (a.k.a. joe)
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