Jon, That's all I was trying to say. We are splitting hairs over how precise our inprecise guess is. Without acknowledging the assumptions that have been made.
I have no problem with people trying to learn the correct methods, but there is a time and a place for everything. I just felt this was the time to learn how to do " engineering based estimation" which is also a valuable tool.
[This message has been edited by JBD (edited 02-12-2006).]