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Subject: [TenTec] Programming bugs
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Sun Jun 15 10:27:45 2003
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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