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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (EWD498)

How do we tell truths that might hurt? Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessl

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Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile

1/18/11 8:42 AMRoundoff Error and the Patriot Missile Page 1 of 2http://mate.uprh.edu/~pnm/notas4061/patriot.htm Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile Robert Skeel The March 13 issue of Science carried an article claiming, on the basis of a report from the General Accounting Office (GAO), that a "minute mathematical error ... allowed an Iraqi Scud missile to slip through Patriot missile defenses