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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 28 March 1998

From P. Spring

Huddersfield, Yorkshire

Over-accurate measurement has also been used in psychology. Shortly after
pocket calculators became available, the head of a local infant school was
recording reading quotients (reading age expressed as a percentage of
chronological age) to three decimal places.

Issue no. 2127 published 28 March 1998

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