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The story is told of [[Thomas Edison]] putting a brand new engineer with a bright and shiny degree to the test by asking him to determine the volume of a very irregular vessel. After several hours, the engineer triumphantly produced his calculations. Whereupon, Edison simply filled the vessel to the brim with water and proceeded to pour the water from the irregular vessel into a graduated container. The engineer was off by less than a ''whole'' [[order of magnitude]].

A variation on KISS is to use orignal sources. See {[[Archimedes' principle]] where that problem was solved two millenea ago. Edison, like Churchill, and Mark Twain are leaders for mis-attribution.

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