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From: "Bruno Luong" <b.luong@fogale.fr>
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Subject: Re: Find Minimum
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:29:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Doug Schwarz <see@sig.for.address.edu> wrote in message
<see-C4CECF.17000611022008@71-129-133-66.dollamir.com>...

> 
> So let's hear one!  I'm an engineer, but I always enjoy a
laugh, even at 
> my own expense.
> 

This is real a story:

My engineer co-worker: Bruno, do you know what is the RMS of
an error bracketing between 0 and m? My impression is the
RMS is m/2. 

Me: Let's see, I believe you meant an error uniformly
distributed between 0 and m.... (I wrote a simple integral
on the board).. I believe it's actually m/sqrt(3).

My co-worker: pull out his calculator: so it's 0.57m. I was
right, it is indeed m/2!

Me: .........


Bruno