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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: questions about cdrom
Message-ID: <11021@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 89 02:42:17 GMT
References: <3977@shlump.nac.dec.com> <494@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU> <942@lakesys.UUCP>
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In article <942@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
>In article <494@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU> kgamble@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU (Kevin Gamble) writes:
>>It costs approximately $2000 to have a CD-ROM disc mastered, which includes
>>100 copies of the disc. After that, it costs $2.00 per disc for additional
>>discs in quantities of 100.
>
>Huh? That means that the 2nd 100 disks cost the same as the first 100, since
>$2.00 times 100 equals $2000.00!  So, where's the incentive not to force the
>mfgr. to re-master for every order?  Or, did one of your numbers slip?

The company I work for markets a very powerful symbolic computation package, which
can do integration, differentiation, matrices, arbitrary precision arithmetic, and
so on.  When given the problem "2.00 * 100", it returns "200", not "2000".  This
agrees with what I learned in public school, that 2 x 100 = 200.  So, the first 100
discs cost $20 apiece.

Just my $2 worth.

Stefan Vorkoetter
(smvorker@watmum.waterloo.edu)
Technical Manager
Waterloo Maple Software