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RE: [TenTec] Programming bugs

To: tentec@contesting.com, <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Programming bugs
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:20:01 -0400
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At 05:22 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Kevin J. Rowett wrote:
Not quite.  While perhaps not a programming bug, certainly a bug - the MARS
lander that crashed - one group worked in SI, the other in english units,
without the benefit of converting the values between the two different
units.


We used to have a saying at NASA under the unlamented Goldin regime -- "Better, faster, cheaper -- choose any two"


73, Pete N4ZR
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