Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!watmum!smvorkoetter 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> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Reply-To: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 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