From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/12
Date: 1996-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31BEBA98.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31bc75ed.1932371@news.cableol.net
Dewi Daniels wrote:
> From the alt.folklore.computers FAQ at
> http://www.best.com/~wilson/faq:
>
> Then in issue 8.75 we found out what really happened...
>
> | erratically four minutes after launch. The alleged missing `hyphen'
> | was really a missing `bar'. I quote from Paul's book, pp. 202-203:
> |
> | # relayed directly from the track radar. The symbol for this smoothed
> | # data was ... `R dot bar n' [R overstruck `.' and `_' and subscript n],
> | # where R stands for the radius, the dot for the first derivative
> | # (i.e., the velocity), the bar for smoothed data, and n for the
> | # increment.
Still, if thy had named their variables Radius.Velocity_Smoothed_N and
Radius.Velocity_N (their language probably didn't even allow this), the
odds of this error being discovered by someone before the failure would
have been MUCH greater.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 0:00 ARIANE-5 Failure John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Tronche Ch. le pitre
1996-06-07 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Eugene W.P. Bingue
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Samuel Mize
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-18 0:00 ` 4GL code in a deliverable (was: ARIANE-5 Failure) Arthur Evans Jr
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` 4THGL code Warren Taylor
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Automatic code generation (was ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works)) Steve Vestal
1996-06-07 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Ken Garlington
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Bert Peers
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Dewi Daniels
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jan Kok
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
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