<HTML>In a message dated 9/17/02 2:42:37 PM Central Daylight Time, drwoodwind@hotmail.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">OK, here is the BIG problem as I see it with discussing ETD's, the interchangeability of the words accurate and precise. </BLOCKQUOTE> The reason both words are used, is because they mean the same thing. Accurate: 1. careful and exact. 2. free from mistakes, precise. Precise: strictly define: accurately stated. (New World Dictionary) Wim </HTML>