On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 03:08:42PM +0100, tim wrote: > > would fall out of the sky. And he was right. Remember the 10^8 > > dollar NASA Mars probe that got lost because JPL was using > > imperial units while NASA expected metric ones ? > > maybe the engineers payed too much attention on getting all the > computations right :) > errors happen, most of us are humans. the question is mainly how to > catch and avoid them: programming languages can easily do dimensional > analysis at compile-time if the dimensions are encoded into the type system. Do you think it was more likely a communications problem? e.g. a bigwig protecting his interests dealing with his European counterpart by not informing the appropriate "departments/sections" of all the details. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
