What is FoM?

Could anyone tell me what Factor of Merit is? What is its meaning? How
to use it? Thanks.

Best,
Allen

 

"Allen"

** Go look it up on Google.

Look up "figure of merit " to.

You lazy shit.




....... Phil

 

Factor of Merit

Example
E = knowledge/ignorance
This is a quotient.

E is in terms of knowledge units per ignorance units.

E provides a means of comparing people.
The higher E is ... the better.

Once you understand this..your E value with go up..

Not by much though..
Nobody can know everything so.. i is extremely high which greatly
brings down E.
D from BC

 

And posting a message with no information, just needless insults,
would result in a zero or negative FOM.

 

Figure of Merit. That was the gorgeous redhead, with the hourglass
figure, sitting nearby in class, that merited my continuous attention.
After a short medical vacation, her Figure of Merit was substantially
enlarged. The larger her Figure of Merit, the less attention I paid
in class, much to the detriment of my grades. Not having the guts to
even ask her name, I substituted a code phrase, which happened to be
"Figure of Merit". Ah, nostalgia.

 

Le Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:18:18 +0000, D from BC a écrit:

Don't think so. It'd just be a measure of how much knowledge an
individual could store. FoM, in my view, implies some usefullness at
doing something. Your ratio simply don't express such a thing.

E = knowledge/people efficiency
by defining how well an individual uses it's knowledge to do something
useful would be more close.

 

I prefer the US military designation. FOD (Foreign Object Damage).


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

It depends. For a car, miles/gallon might be a FOM.

 

LOL !

Another redhead admirer. They do have a certain something.

Graham

 

Hey..that's catchy.
Phil might like that.
Example:
"You dimfukk. Does your brain have FOD?"


D from BC

 

Thank you guys, all of you, you guys are awesome.

Allen

 

Well..it was a late night satirical post..

My belief is that FOM can be any formula of any measurable quantities
to appraise value to use in comparing.

Example: chick magnet = income/ugliness
The more $$$, the more you're a chick magnet.
Tom Cruise has a high CM FOM.
Even the most wealthiest guy that's butt ugly can out score Tom
Cruises FOM.

So... gold digging women will find this FOM 'useful'..
Better?


D from BC

 

You're welcome. However, you'll have to get your own redhead.

Figure of Merit is a generic term used in vague marketing comparisons.
It has little application to engineering. See:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_merit>
There are literally hundreds of Figures of Merit floating around. I
even invented one back in college. I needed a way to comparatively
rate the various available women. The problem was finding a reference
point and baseline for the comparison. I solved the problem by using
Helen of Troy. She launched 1000 ships. Therefore, one milliHelen
would launch one ship. The comparison also applies to the ugly ones,
what would sink up to 1000 ships. I never used the term Figure of
Merit, but it would have applied perfectly.

I could also apply a Figure of Merit to your original question. As a
baseline for comparison, I'll use a perfectly phrased question, such
as all of mine. I usually get about 3 replies of varying quality, so
I'll rate the question based on the number of followups. The best
questions always receive absolutely no attention, as it would require
those answering to actually read the question and possibly think.
Therefore each reply consists of a negative value, where zero would be
the perfectly phrased question.

I see that you have so far received 11 followups to your question.
This gives your question a figure of merit of -11, which is fairly
typical. If you had started a flame war or precipitated a major topic
drift, your Figure of Merit would drop even lower.

Anyway, I hope this helps you understand Figure of Merit. If you wish
to improve your usenet Figure of Merit, I suggest you supply:
1. What problem are you trying to solve?
2. What do you have to work with?
3. What have you done so far and what happened?
While these questions do not exactly fit your current question, the
general format might suggest that there really is a minimum amount of
information necessary to answer questions on usenet.

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=figure-of-merit

Hope This Helps!
Rich