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To: TigerPaw who wrote (80854)	11/18/2000 10:14:04 AM
From: sunshadow	Respond to of 769670

TigerPaw, you can quit posting now... I have enough material from your posts to finish my thesis on "The Meaning of Zero"...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (80854)	11/18/2000 11:30:14 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What is the cost of all the lawyers needed everywhere to monitor all this stuff. This is a problem of visual cues. Counting is the identification of a pattern in a matrix of many possible combinations. The visual cue is a positioal relationship. Doing one correct is easy. But doing a hundred correct hour after hour will have a certain number of mistakes. I designed a test system for video game cartridges for Parker Brothers. frogger, qbert ... etc The operator took the cartridge, put it in the tester, pushed a button and a red or green light indicated pass or fail. Two cartridges were tested at a time. A small percentage of the time 1 in 1200 the operator would mix up placing the cartridges in the correct pile. My indicator is far clearer that the ballot holes. So for years past there have been manual miscounts. That is what I know. After testing 29 million cartridges, this test system I designed had a measured error rate of 1 in 3 million. Tom Watson tosiwmee