[geeks] Why? i.e. why do people have such poor math & engineering skills?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 18:39:27 (+0100), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Why? i.e. why do people have such poor math &   engineering skills?
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:35:49PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 07:36:46 (-0700), Fogg, James wrote: ]
> > > ~ > > "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com> wrote:
> > > ~ > > > 500K-tons
> > > ~ > Woah, what's this?  A machine that weighs 500 tons and it walks?
> > > ~ five hundred THOUSAND tons!
> > No, not that much -- you're over by at least an order of magnitude, or
> > even two (most of the big walkers are only 5,000 tons).
> 
> Perhaps the K suffix means something different wherever you are from.

Perhaps.  For me:  500k == 500,000

that's two orders of magnitude more than 5,000

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