When I was a kid I remember have problems with 'A quarter'. For money it meant 25 cents for, time it meant 15 minutes . . . .
Warren -------------- Original message from "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > At 20:54 +0000 on 08/10/2008, Warren Brown wrote about Re: > California's COBOL payroll system: > > >My wife teaches fifth grade and tells me that her kids can't tell > >time on an analog clock. They grew up in a digital world! > > Talking again about an Isaac Asimov story, he once wrote one that > hinged on the ability to misread/misinterpret the time displayed by a > Digital Clock. The time in the story was 5:50 PM but some witnesses > remembered it as 10 (minutes) to 6PM while others remembered it as > Half past 5PM. The difference was that the "Half past 5PM" witness > was an Accountant and was thinking of it as being $5.50 (thus 5 1/2). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
