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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 07:18:26 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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David M. Cook wrote:
> 
> On 22 Sep 1996 18:19:59 GMT, tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com <tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com> wrote:
> >In article <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>, Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> writes:
> 
> >>Hmmmmm....... On my screen, that looked like 70.000 with a period [...]
> 
> >Yup.  It's a dot.
> 
> So the guy is saying that he gets 70 hits, and that his measurement is
> accurate to the nearest thousandth of a hit?  Does he sometimes get 70.156
> hits?
> 

Nope. Go back and look at where he is (.de). Much of Europe swaps the
dot and comma symbols for decimal notation. Translation to American
notation would give 70,000 hits.
-- 
Ken

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