Calculator Accuracy & Usefulness

[Les Bell]

(05-25-2015 02:50 AM)Dave Shaffer Wrote:  Not sure what epoch you refer to, but I invented/used this term back in the early '70s (and could enlist friends to back me up, if necessary).

However, it's pretty obvious, too.

Gordon was an active engineer and scientist from the 1930's onwards, and I got the impression he'd been using the line for many years when I heard it in 1973 or so - but as you say, it's pretty obvious and independently "discoverable".