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From: johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: recap so far
Keywords: productivity, code size, estimation, metrics
Message-ID: <152@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 90 14:55:28 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.154906.20518@newcastle.ac.uk> <141@srchtec.UUCP> <1990Jul21.191009.14229@newcastle.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Jul21.191009.14229@newcastle.ac.uk>
Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt) [in response to me] writes:
> ...  many people still think if you have digits of precision, that
>those digits are necessarily meaningful.  A garbage number is worse than
>a very imprecise one *because* it is misleading.

Very well-said.             --john b.---