On May 21, 10:00 am, "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds to me like the teacher is being difficult, ... No, proof-by-contradiction is a common technique in math. If you can show that x=8 and x=10, then you have shown that your assumptions were incorrect. > If you can't do, or don't like, math, you probably shouldn't be > programming. Why not? Recipes are programs. I prefer to look at it the other way: an easy-to-use programming language might encourage more people to like math. > You keep trotting out this quadratic equation example, but does FT > actually have any kind of useful equation solver in it? Not yet, but it will. Probably around July. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
