11 Nov
2007
11 Nov
'07
2:26 a.m.
Hans van Thiel wrote:
If you mean that people should not do arithmetic on computers, if the results are vital, unless they understand the scope and limits of the tools they're using, I agree, of course.
My brother used to work for a certain well-known manufacturer of CPUs. He told me that the engineers who worked on the FPU would never fly in a commercial airliner. Hmm... -Yitz