Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site edison.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!dpm From: dpm@edison.UUCP (Dave P. McClurg) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Andy Libby Story Message-ID: <476@edison.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 11:21:15 EDT Article-I.D.: edison.476 Posted: Fri Apr 26 11:21:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Apr-85 04:34:51 EDT References: <1706@topaz.ARPA> Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 16 > From: Janice > > The short story about Andrew "Slipstick" Libby is called "Misfit." It > can probably be most easily found in the Heinlein collection called > "The Past Through Tomorrow." The most amusing feature of this story, > for me at least, was the scene where two major characters are doing > some calculations on a computer, and in order to do so they have to > convert all the numbers using log tables. > > Janice > Have you ever taken NUMERICAL METHODS? Computer math is tough stuff. :-) Dave at VA TECH