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Egon, Better innumerate than unwashed and so much more socially acceptable.

Hint: Innumerate is the numerical equivalent of illiterate.

JML, You may be nearly as messed up as I am.

Just this morning at breakfast my wife and I were discussing the parallel between degreed I.T. professionals from my alma mater and USAF navigators back in my time in the USAF (after Sputnik but before man on the moon.) The parallel being there was no recruitment program. In the case of the navigator, you just had to fail no more than the allowable amount during pilot training and for the I.T. degree program, one way to get in was to fail the entrance exam for the computer science program. When I took that test there were people there taking it for the 5th or 6th time hoping a miracle would happen. Had they fully appreciated the difference in the math requirements they might have not been so eager to get into the CS program.

I actually worked as and had a job title of computer programmer/computer specialist working full time at it for a couple years, mostly while getting a Masters in Software Engineering degree in evening classes. I led a small team of people developing Pascal and Ada programs that were courseware authoring systems for training scenarios on embedded computers on shipboard Navy war fighting systems.

Every coordinate system I saw was different from all the rest. MSB and LSB were not the same between the development system (VAX 11-785 super mini-computer) and the "beasts used shipboard." The whole thing was a guaranteed headache. Some of the stuff I did, I could only understand before lunch when I was fresh as it was too complicated if I was not at full capacity.

At times having Zaphod's dual brain advantage would have certainly helped.

OK numerologists here is a little gem I originated to express certain emotions... A digital salute, 00100 often offered to the folks who qualified to have there ID number be ID ten T (ID10T a close approximation to IDIOT)

Further explanation of the digital salute by PM on an as requested basis only.

Pat

"I'm not from your planet, monkey boy!"

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