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Nov. 14th, 2005 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI solved a vexing mystery this morning, but they're not happy with my answer. Cars with apparently identical records were not yielding identical results when it came to suppressing reclaimable mileage. They have been looking into it from a system standpoint, trying to find a programming error somewhere in the works. As soon as I heard about the problem this morning (why don't they bring me these things sooner?) I had a different thought.
"If two cars with identical records generate different results, Occam's Razor suggests that the records are not - appearances aside - identical."
It took about twenty minutes, but I managed to find the problem in the records (very subtle - it's no wonder they missed it earlier), and traced the root cause to human error.
I suspect that they were hoping that the problem was systemic. Finding out that it was a clerical error makes them all *frumple*.
Now back to working on my year-end review. I managed to get it postponed until Tuesday (yay me!) so that I could track down some vital figures.
"If two cars with identical records generate different results, Occam's Razor suggests that the records are not - appearances aside - identical."
It took about twenty minutes, but I managed to find the problem in the records (very subtle - it's no wonder they missed it earlier), and traced the root cause to human error.
I suspect that they were hoping that the problem was systemic. Finding out that it was a clerical error makes them all *frumple*.
Now back to working on my year-end review. I managed to get it postponed until Tuesday (yay me!) so that I could track down some vital figures.
