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Engineering is the discipline, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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Was NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter lost because engineering teams used different measuring units?
I asked Peter Norvig, who was on the review board, and he gave me the following more nuanced answer (the question was asked in the context of type-safety in programming language choice):
The problem …
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