Order Online! or call (405) 815-0001 to order or ask questions

Costly Miscalculation
A decimal point (or period) is the smallest character on a keyboard, yet its placement in a mathematical solution can make a BIG difference.
Compare .1000, 1.000, and 1000. Would you rather have $1.00 or $100? We sometimes overlook the seemingly insignificant details that prove to be very important. Can you think of a situation in which you overlookd details, and what was the result?

In September of 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed due to a simple miscalculation. NASA reported that the loss of the $125 million probe was due to human error—a failure to translate English units into metric units.

According to Noel Hinners, vice president of flight systems for
Lockheed Martin Astronautics, “To be very blunt about it, it was overlooked.”