----- Original Message -----
From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
> The Fool wrote:
> >
> > Are you trying to push godels theorem here?
>
> Now, *there's* something I'd like to see -- theorem pushers. :)
>
> As theorems go, that could be a difficult one to push. Proof of the
> quadratic equation, now, that's an easier pill to swallow.
>
> Julia
>
> who contributed to a drug law debate on another list recently
> and who has a "I love the quadratic equation" (except it's done all in
> symbols, but those are difficult to reproduce with plain text in an
> e-mail) t-shirt
i should love the quadratic equation, since if it were not for the
application of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to equations like x�+1=0,
mathematicians and physicists would use i a lot less often (and electrical
engineers would never learn the tenth letter of the alphabet) . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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