Klaas Bil wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:48:17 -0600, Jim_Rob wrote:

Gee, I was just trying to have some fun, Harper would have enjoyed
it.

Me too. But I couldn't help wondering why 'precise' would me a more
relative term than 'exact', as you seem to imply.



In the technical world, precise is a relative term requiring
qualification, so one can speak of how precise a measurement is (+/-10%
etc.) Exact is an absolute term, which comes to us from mathematics.
One can have an exact solution to an equation, but it is not possible
to make an exact measurement.


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Jim_Rob

TTFN- JR

In theory, there is no difference between Theory and Practice.

In practice, there is.
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