LOL Todd! :-)
I humbly stand corrected. In fact, to be precise, 2.851 seconds.
Howsomever, the editor in me must point out that it ROUNDS to three, but
TRUNCATES to two. We must be a stickler for precision in the English
language too, musn't we! :-)
--Rocket J. Squirrel (it was a good job, Todd!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Green <tag@cs.utah.edu>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to SEB / ESP
>>BTW, has anyone even noticed another pretty good driver (Jim Leithauser)
in
>>the SAME car could do no better than seventh, 4 seconds behind? Or that
>>there were two other M3s in the game -- one finishing third, yes, but
three
>>seconds behind, with its co-driver in 33rd; and the third M3 finishing
31st.
>
>Hey, hey, hey! I was 2.8 seconds behind Bob, not three! Using
>EgoMath(tm), that rounds down to 2, not up to 3!!!! <vbg> I can even
>write a computer program to prove it:
>
>perl -e 'use POSIX qw(floor); print floor(2.8), "\n";'
>
>See if I had just keep my foot to the floor(), I would have run only 2.0
>behind ;)
>
>Todd
>
>
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