Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

"Alan" <not.me_at_uhuh.rcn.com> wrote:

>"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_mail.ocis.net> wrote in message
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>> From your perspective, how many years old is a newborn? (integer
>> domain) Yes, you may follow as I stated "The usage is usually...",
>> but if you must answer my question as stated, what but zero could you
>> honestly answer?
>
>A newborn's age is not expressed in years, but in days, weeks, months. So,

     You will recall that I wrote that as being the usual case.

>the age is, say, 3 months, but still 0 years. But if you don't like 0, just
>use something else to represent unknown, like -1.

     Of course.

>> I saw a scenario for an insurance company where a bug was
>> encountered because of dividing by age, and the age in question was
>> zero.

>Easily fixed with code, though.

     The scenario dealt with the ethics of testing with live data.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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