On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > Reminds me of the story that the first survey of Mt. Everest resulted in a > height of exactly 29,000 feet, but to avoid the appearance of an estimate, > they reported it as 29,002: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2684102
Yeah. Exactly the same phenomenon as I was referring to earlier when I said that you never tell someone you need to leave in five minutes - if you say six minutes, you'll be away sooner. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
