Or "What's the chance of that?"
I'm currently working on my MSc dissertation (it's about calibrating satellite altimeters, but that's not important right now).
I have a lot of measurements to analyze: calculating averages at different locations, etc.
One of the values comes out as "7.62mm".
"That's neat", I think, but I have loads of values, so its not unlikely that one will come up that is somehow "significant".
But then , a bit later, I'm checking the size of my Word file: 5.56Mb.
A little later, I find I need to resize an image file, to make it the same size as another one. I calculate the rescaling factor, and then run my Graphics package. I'm using Paintshop Pro 2, which frustratingly doesn't have a "resize by x%" function, but instead you have to tell it the new dimensions of the image.
I check the current height of the image: 308 pixels.
And when I multiply it by the rescaling factor it becomes: 222 pixels!
I'm currently working on my MSc dissertation (it's about calibrating satellite altimeters, but that's not important right now).
I have a lot of measurements to analyze: calculating averages at different locations, etc.
One of the values comes out as "7.62mm".
"That's neat", I think, but I have loads of values, so its not unlikely that one will come up that is somehow "significant".
But then , a bit later, I'm checking the size of my Word file: 5.56Mb.
A little later, I find I need to resize an image file, to make it the same size as another one. I calculate the rescaling factor, and then run my Graphics package. I'm using Paintshop Pro 2, which frustratingly doesn't have a "resize by x%" function, but instead you have to tell it the new dimensions of the image.
I check the current height of the image: 308 pixels.
And when I multiply it by the rescaling factor it becomes: 222 pixels!
