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Naked Numbers Cost NASA
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Naked Numbers Cost NASA
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After a nine month trip to Mars, the Mars Climate Observer
spacecraft was lost as a result of Naked Numbers. Numbers communicated from Lockheed
Martin in Colorado to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California were left unit-less.
Naked numbers, being completely meaningless, left engineers to guess...