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Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by dilap on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:51PM (#36199159)
Have two different people do the same work, see if they get the same answer. Ideally the two people use different tools, so "likely to make same mistake" is minimized.
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by kamikaz1k on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:54PM (#36199213)
“A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by MichaelZuo on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:20PM (#36199614)
That's why you need three watches.
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by gilleain on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:58PM (#36199288)
Oh man. My mother's house has so many clocks with a variety of opinions on what the time is. I have to average them to get an estimate of what the real time is.
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by the8472 on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:30PM (#36200819)
Every man now has access to a swarm of atomic clocks in Earth orbit and the necessary relativistic corrections to know time anywhere on earth, down to a few nanoseconds.
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by scrivna on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:30PM (#36229169)
Tell that to my microwave, my oven, the clock in my car, my watch, the clock on the wall…