[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 13:39, George Herbert wrote:
> >
> > 99.999% of people who are told the aphelion distance of Mars to eight
> > significant digits aren't going to use it in any fashion whatsoever, let
> > alone use the eighth decimal place.  So?
>
> That can't possibly be true.  At least 5% of the people I know closely
> do or have done interplanetary trajectory work.

If this is true, then it's a safe bet that the people you know don't represent 
a good cross-sample of the population at large.

Extrapolating from a single anecdote is rarely a good idea.

-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>