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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: mathematical tricks
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Date: 29 Jul 88 17:28:27 GMT
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One issue of the Communications of the ACM (I can't remember which one, it
was about 1-2 years back) had a number of "rules of thumb" for CS.  It 
included some that I still remember (particularly two from Grace Hopper:
pi seconds is a nanocentury, and a nanosecond is about 1 foot [distance
light travels])

(I'd be more helpful if I had my CACM's unboxed...)

--Bill Turner