At 02:21 PM 4/12/2007, William Couture wrote:

>What's worse, I've worked with a control systems engineer (Ph.D., no
>less) who could not divide by 2 in his head...

That's because he was having problems with the binary to decimal 
conversion (in his head) after first converting the decimal value to 
binary, then discarding the LSB.  <grin>

dwayne

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