Re: Why do people use anonymous remailers for?

Hey!  Anybody ever told you a preposition is a terrible thing to end a
sentence with?

;^P
-- Stinger
"Stagger Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Fri,  7 Nov 2003 13:55:29 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous Sender
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :
> : And Arf!Arf! still can't explain why the FCC question pool question used
as an example is WRONG.
> : RMS voltage is calculated thusly:
> : From FCC Element 4:
> :
> : E8A11 What is the RMS value of a 340-volt-peak-to-peak pure sine wave?
> :  A. 120-V AC
> :  B. 170-V AC
> :  C. 240-V AC
> :  D. 300-V AC
>
> Yeah, but that wasn't the history of it.  In message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> you posted the following:
>
> "120 V * 1.414 = 169.69 Volts.
> Learn how to multiply, DROPOUT"
>
> And that little gem illustrates that you can't even get the final
> digit in a multiplication to come out (hint: 2 x 4 = 8) and that you
> have no idea about significant digits.  You SHOULD have used more
> significant digits in the square root of two if you wanted to obtain
> the peak voltage to five significant digits (169.71).  Otherwise, you
> should have rounded the number off to the two significant digits used
> in the FCC question pool and obtained 170 VAC.
>
> Your faux pas has forever been archived on Google, and you can't
> spin your way out of it.  Every time you try, I'll repost the
> Message-ID of your blunder.