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Originally Posted by Dick Schmidt
Ultra Scan was the next program offered. Developed by Doc to shut up a client who was only interested in long shots, it turned out to be a surprisingly good program. The internal workings are very strange, as it adds a feet-per-second rating and a percentage figure together and divides by two, then multiplies by an arbitrary number I forget to "disguise" the ratings. Doc used to say that this was his most original idea.
Dick
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It wasn't multiplication by an arbitrary number. The originals reversed the sort so the "US choices" were bottom to top, rather than top to bottom. Sartin referred to it somewhat obliquely as being "like discovering the atomic bomb by mistake."
