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Default Extreme precision in figuring out experience

On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:07:50 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Larry Jaques wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:31:10 -0500, Ignoramus8303
wrote:

I just received a resume.

``As a candidate for the position I have a Mechanical Engineering
degree and about 2.54 years experience doing technical writing and
3.79 years experience doing some engineering and CAD.''


What kind of ME is that, using only _2_ decimal places when he coulda
used 3 or 4? Sheesh!



I always used five places, so they could make their own rounding
errors.


Goodonya, Mikey. PRECISION ill-fitting parts!

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