On 26-Nov-08 17:57:52, Andrew Choens wrote: > [...] > And, since I do work for government, if I ask for a roomful of > calculators, I might just get them. And really, what am I going > to do with a roomful of calculators? > > --andy > Insert something humorous here. :-)
Next time the launch of an incoming nuclear strike is detected, set them to work as follows (following Karl Pearson's historical precedent): "Anti-aircraft guns all day long": Computing for the Ministry of Munitions JUNE BARROW GREEN (Open University) From January 1917 until March 1918 Pearson and his staff of mathematicians and human computers at the Drapers Biometric Laboratory worked tirelessly on the computing of ballistic charts, high-angle range tables and fuze-scales for AV Hill of the Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section. Things did not always go smoothly -- Pearson did not take kindly to the calculations of his staff being questioned -- and Hill sometimes had to work hard to keep the peace. If you have enough of them (and Pearson undoubtedly did, so you can quote that in your requisition request), then you might just get the answer in time! [ The above excerpted from http://tinyurl.com/6byoub ] Good luck! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Nov-08 Time: 18:35:25 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.