In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/08/2008
at 11:52 AM, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'll agree to that, but without simple arithmetic, mathematics is a lost
>study!
Nonsense. It's far more important to understand numerical relations than
it is to be able to compute by hand. The schools have turned out several
generations of students who are innumerate but can do arithmetic by rote.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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