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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2006-06-05 01:38 pm
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[personal profile] gerald_duck 2006-06-05 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Equally, however, I don't want to be in a rocket suit when it divides by zero.

[identity profile] kaet.livejournal.com 2006-06-06 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good point. Particularly given what happened to Arianne Five when it did just that. Equally, though, I guess, that all the rocket-suit manufacturers are assuming the same value for 0^0 than each having their own, in the style of the famous lb/in^2,N mixup at JPL.

I sometimes wonder if the space industry exists primarily to keep comp.risks full of interesting articles.