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From: peb@transcontech.co.uk ("Paul E. Bennett")
Subject: Re: Make what user wants?
Date: 1997/09/30
Date: 1997-09-30T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875652458snz@transcontech.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu


In article <342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu>
           dick@doc.csusb.edu "Dick Botting JB341" writes:

> The user asked that the new system print out on paper
> about twenty pages of figures.   We said OK.... Are you
> sure that you want twenty pages offigures.  The Client
> said yes...

[%X]
  
> By the way... we got the output down to a single line...

Others have referred to people being great pattern recognisers. Sometimes 
though it is difficult to spot a trend in the numbers alone. By all means 
sum and compare the numbers but wouldn't a graph in addition to this been 
helpful.

Pictures make the patterns easier to recognise.

-- 
Paul E. Bennett ................... <peb@transcontech.co.uk>
Transport Control Technology Ltd.   <http://www.tcontec.demon.co.uk/>
+44 (0)117-9499861                  <enquiry@transcontech.co.uk>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-09-30  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-17  0:00 The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Ell
1997-09-16  0:00 ` Mark Wilden
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Make what user wants? Bert Bril
1997-09-17  0:00   ` Rick Price
     [not found]   ` <bengtk-1809971106150001@sl86.modempool.kth.se>
1997-09-23  0:00     ` Dick Botting JB341
1997-09-26  0:00       ` Richie Bielak
1997-09-26  0:00         ` the_walrus
1997-09-30  0:00       ` "Paul E. Bennett" [this message]
1997-09-17  0:00 ` The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Robert B. Love 
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