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Old 07-18-2003, 01:04 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally posted by ratbastid
I happen to know of a multi-million dollar oil drilling project done by a VERY large international oil company that resulted in a hole being drilled 100 yards off course because one of the projects' programmers hard-coded the value of pi to '4'.

I mean.... 4! That's not even good <i>rounding</i>!
drill a horizontal hole from that, profit loss is minimized.

for those of you who read horizontal hole and thought I was a fucking idiot presentng the idea we can drill horizontal holes. well... continue thinking that
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