>> Today I had three students 1st y systeembeheer (== system maintainer?) >> do some calculations. One was an estimate of the time needed for a >> typical windows system cal. Their answer was 0.2 seconds, and that did >> not seem strange to them at all. > > Ah, the sanity check. Another completely missed concept. > > At my previous job, my boss taught a course in endocrinology. One test > had a question to the effect of "a healthy patient is observed to consume > 1-L of fluid over a 2-hour period. Calculate renal output." Answers > varied > from tens of mL up to multiple L. Very few, if any, of the students > thought > to consider that if one liter goes in, one liter had BETTER come out. > > Mike H. Not my subject area, but is fluid loss due to respiration and perspiration relatively small? Also, it seems like there's a fifo buffer of sorts where the 1L input over 2 hours is not necessarily output over the same two hour period or at the same rate... Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist