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From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: New poll
Message-ID: <1310013@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 88 18:51:55 GMT
References: <6198@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>>>;-)  I doubt if the various snake-oil designs popular on wreck.audio are
>>>     included.  I also doubt if more than three or four wreck.audio readers
>>>     can even understand what nonlinear optimization and finite element
>>>     analysis means.                                                     :-)
>>>
>>>                                             Barry L. Ornitz
>$
>$ Smileys or not, I'll take the wager. I am quite familiar with both. I
>$ presume you include youself, so that makes two of us. My guess is that
>$ there at least 8 more of us. Let's hear from you...
>
>
>Count another person.   I use these tools in _electronics_ applications,
>though....   presumably B. Orintz was thinking of mechanical uses like
>speaker cone design...
>

Add one more to the list. It's been a while since I've done anything
with it (like since college), so I'd need a refresher.
It was part of my major however.

Actually I think Barry was thinking about the many verbose inane
postings by several unnamed people.

Dave S.--