> To add a little perspective ... didn't NASA scientists make a
> billion dollar mistake for a Mars project by neglecting to convert
> units (or is that story apocryphal)?
It's not apocryphal, but my understanding is that the problem was a
clash between a system which output data in one set of units and
another expecting data in the other set. It's a quibble, but it was
really a systems engineering oversight--both systems worked as
advertised, but apparently they weren't tested against each other.
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