Probably the problem is not with searching but getting hold of the
reference material for free. A hundred dollar here and anohter there
can bankrupt a lot of small guys like me in no time at all.
- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Wright
<chrisw@s...> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2005, at 9:04 AM, elie altawil wrote:
>
> > If you want to provide a reference, please take the
> > time to make it complete or don't baother. Provide
> > book title, edition, date, author, etc.
> You usually need a complete reference if you're going to borrow it
from
> the library, but you can search the web by title, and get
everything
> you need. **but** Balbuena's reference "piping for estimate"
scored no
> hits at all and it's probably wrong and therefore worse than
useless.
>
> I did a search on "piping for estimate" and got no hits; then
removed
> the quotes and got just over a million hits; then searched within
the
> results using 'book' as a qualifier and narrowed it down to just
over
> 550,000. Lots of books about piping estimation, but no 'piping
for
> estimate.' Is it any wonder some of us old fårt moderators get a
little
> testy?
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
> chrisw@s... | this distance" (last words of Gen.
> .......................................| John Sedgwick,
Spotsylvania
> 1864)
> <a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a>
Received on Mon Sep 05 05:33:00 2005