Re: [Haskell-cafe] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Functional Programming

--- Iain Lane wrote:

Bryan Burgers wrote:

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On 9/26/07, Graham Hutton wrote:

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Salary will be within the range 25,134 - 32,796 pounds per year, depending on qualifications and experience. The post is available immediately, and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years.

I don't mean to diminish the seriousness of your message, but why is the salary range so exact? Couldn't you have just rounded the upper bound to 32,768 for the sake of readability? I would imagine that they come from the University's salary scales[1]. As for why the salaries on there are so exact, that's anyone's guess. [1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/scales/r-t010807%2B.pdf

I used to work for a county goverment in the USA where I started at $8.886 per hour and left at $12.998 per hour. Even multiplying by 2080 hours per annum resulted in decimal places. It was probably part of the percentage increases we received each year: somehow it made the infaamous bean counters happy...