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I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!
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Reminds me of a situation at work where someone asked me for help and the answer was to move the decimal left two places, so I told her to divide by 100. I guess she didn’t like the answer and asked someone else who gave her something better, to “multiply by .01”.[/quote]
I’m sorry both of you work with some pretty dumb people…[/quote]
I’ve had cow-workers who didn’t understand the meaning of rounding numbers. I gave them a table with a TOTAL at the bottom and a footnote explaining that the rows may not exactly add to the total because of rounding. They insisted there was an error and wanted to manually change some numbers. These two had advanced degrees, one of them an MD.
