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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Is it Art or is it Engineering
Message-ID: <1673@desint.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 23:37:18 GMT
References: <6879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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Keywords: Art Engineering Tolerances

In article <6879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman)
writes:

> Is there anything in programming that is analogous to
> the term "tolerance" in engineering?

It seems to me that heuristics are analogous.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff