Donn here misrepresents what industry insiders were telling him.
The phrase: "sharpening the pencil" definitively does NOT
refer to fudging results. It refers instead to doing modern day calcs
formerly avoided by slide-rule era engineers,
on account of their difficulty.
It means: Doing the math more accurately,
in order to capture all available margin. .
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