Good work!
I'm not too surprized you found problems. I didn't expect to see it included surge, but since it is so very easy to include elevation differences in such a program, and such an annoyance when they arn't, it indicated to me that it was a pretty lazy programmer that wrote that one up. From what you say, it may have been much more than laziness. Now that you mention it I also believe it has not been fixed yet.
And yes, back in the "old days"... we would spend a great deal of time throughly testing all software products we purchased to validate the results before they were allowed to be used on the floor. I still see "real" professional engineering companies doing this, where the use of such programs for project work is banned. Applets are allowed to be used
ONLY to get preliminary non-design use numbers (WAG), but no such results can form any part of officially documented work to be handed over to a client. Only approved programs can be used, and, in fact, all engineers are not permitted to write any personally written spreadsheets, without preapproval to do so. Most clients I've worked with have also had lists of programs that were approved for use on their projects as well, and if you didn't have those programs in-house, you didn't need to waste your time bidding for their work.
Well, all in all I guess I shouldn't compain. It might just mean more business for me next year fixing those engineering BOT designs. How do I love this internet? Let me count the ways.
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