Fundies Math

[Charlie99]

I think too many are getting obsessed with the accuracy of their timers and depth gages.

Nobody has said anything about ACCURACY. We're talking about RESOLUTION, which is not the same. We haven't touched on REPEATABILITY yet. Gotta maintain the geek quotient in this thread.

 

[ScubaMilo]

Alright I can't help it, how many sig figures in a number written 3k?

Is it 1 or 4


Milo

 

[ekewaka]

Alright I can't help it, how many sig figures in a number written 3k?

Is it 1 or 4


Milo

That would definitely be 1.

 

[Gilldiver]

Nobody has said anything about ACCURACY. We're talking about RESOLUTION, which is not the same. We haven't touched on REPEATABILITY yet. Gotta maintain the geek quotient in this thread.

Sorry, I am a Manufacturing Engineer, so I am used to cutting through the BS to figure out how to make something. The look on some "Engineer's" faces when you tell them that no machine can make their design or when you tear their designs apart can be quite funny, especially new Engineers right out of school.

To me most of this thread is meaningless in the sense that the decompression models they are used with have so many soft areas that any resolution lower then +-5' for 2 minutes do not matter.

 

[lamont]

Sorry, I am a Manufacturing Engineer, so I am used to cutting through the BS to figure out how to make something. The look on some "Engineer's" faces when you tell them that no machine can make their design or when you tear their designs apart can be quite funny, especially new Engineers right out of school.

To me most of this thread is meaningless in the sense that the decompression models they are used with have so many soft areas that any resolution lower then +-5' for 2 minutes do not matter.

I would personally not buy a depth gauge that only had a resolution of +/- 5 fsw and a response time of 2 minutes... Perhaps I use it for something other than decompression calculations?

 

[ScubaMilo]

I would personally not buy a depth gauge that only had a resolution of +/- 5 fsw and a response time of 2 minutes... Perhaps I use it for something other than decompression calculations?

Sounds Like you could be 2 minutes into a 5 ft deep dive sitting right where you are, as we speak.

That is if you have the right guage.

Milo