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Subject:Re: Trying again re Cupertino Effect From:Caroline Tabach <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:11:33 +0200
You are quite correct, the very same thing happened to me when editing
a table I had received from someone, I could not understand why dates
were appearing in my specifications table.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> The gene sequencing error was observed for certain strings of three
> letters with one or two numerals (mar1, dec-2, etc.).
>
> But those of us who don't work with genes shouldn't get too complacent:
> The same error occurs with certain short strings of numerals separated
> by dashes and slashes (1-2, 9/18, etc.). As Kathleen points out, any
> database is potentially vulnerable.
>
>>
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Caroline Tabach
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e-mail: caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com
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