Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive? Message-ID: <40852@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 20 Oct 88 21:27:07 GMT References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <16961@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <7099@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 In article <7099@ut-emx.UUCP> malik@emx.UUCP (Nadeem Malik) writes: | In article <16961@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: | | | | An increase from 300 dpi to 400 dpi is a nearly 80 percent | | increase in actual resolution, which I call more than slight. | | Actually it is a 33% increase, but it is still quite significant. No, Trent was right. 300 dpi = 90000 dpi^2 400 dpi = 160000 dpi^2 ------ 77.7778% increase +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include