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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Inspired by Glossary of NASA Terminology
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 01:37:37 EST
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Back in my Burroughs days (say, does anyone from the B900 plant at Downingtown
read this?), someone in my group was making up "fact sheets" about our various
products.  When a figure was given, it could have an accuracy level of A (99%
accurate), B (derived calculation), C (estimate), or D (guess).  Once, at a
T of I (Transfer of Information, Burroughsese for a seminar), someone asked
the difference between C and D.  Our department manager replied that D was a
WAG (Wild-Ass Guess), and C was a SWAG...

        SCIENTIFIC Wild-Ass Guess!

-- Jeff Sargent/...pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq