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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF)

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To: O. H. Rundell who wrote (3616)3/7/1997 7:20:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow   of 35569
 
O H, An order of magnitude estimate usually means within a factor of 2 each way; eg, 100 is guaranteed to be somewhere between 50 and 200.
Guess some binary person decided the range; a decimal 10 to 1000 would be sort of useless :) Our engineers called it a WAG => wild ass guess.

Bob
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