> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:44:12 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
>
> >D'oh. I stand corrected.
> >
> >Ted MacNEIL wrote:
> >> ITYM low.
> >> Signal is the good part
> >>
> >
> It's kinda like how people say "steep learning curve"
> (understanding increases rapidly) when they mean
> "shallow learning curve" (understanding increases slowly).
>
> (Or maybe they have the ordinate and the abscissa conceptually
> swapped: time on the Y-axis?)
It's been many decades, but I vaguely recall from high school physics
that we were taught to place time on the y-axis when graphing
time-distance type functions.
-jc-
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