Dave Land wrote:
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> Yes, I know you can get to 1023 using binary.
>
But why limit the finger to _two_ positions?
Can't you easily fold your fingers in the middle?
So, it's possible to get to 59048 [except that two fingers
in each hand are correlated]
Alberto Monteiro
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On Sep 18, 2005, at 7:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I know you can get to 1023 using binary.
Damn. You trumped me.
It's a great way to win a bet though.
--
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http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror
At 10:11 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron quoted:
"Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry
because the framework is wrong," says Wildberger, whose book is titled
Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron quoted:
"Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry
because the framework is wrong," says Wildberger, whose book is titled
Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (Wild
Egg books).
I have to admit that when I saw t
Ron quoted:
> "Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry
> because the framework is wrong," says Wildberger, whose book is titled
> Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (Wild
> Egg books).
I have to admit that when I saw the subject line of this
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
1/2 + 1/3 is about where most non-mathematically-inclined students throw
up their hands in despair.
Yeah. Someone asks me for dosing amounts of Tylenol for infants, I've
got to figure out how to give the information without invoking the
greatest integer function
At 07:09 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, The Fool wrote:
> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> At 01:01 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, The Fool wrote:
> > > From: Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > http://physorg.com/news6555.html
> >
> >No, it just adds a layer of complexity, and removes
> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> At 01:01 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, The Fool wrote:
> > > From: Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > http://physorg.com/news6555.html
> >
> >No, it just adds a layer of complexity, and removes an important
aspect
> >of math that is used by
At 01:45 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 9/18/05, Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry
(Wild Egg books)
Doesn't this scheme make it really hard to calculate distances? From
the looks of it, it involves a
At 01:26 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
Wild Egg books: http://wildegg.com/
How much is $79.95 AUS in good old American currency?
Divine Proportions: web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/book.htm
I can't make the latter link work (not even by copying and pasting, etc.).
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At 01:01 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, The Fool wrote:
> From: Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> http://physorg.com/news6555.html
No, it just adds a layer of complexity, and removes an important aspect
of math that is used by real-wold physics and calculus. Sines and
Cosines are important. St
> From: Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> http://physorg.com/news6555.html
No, it just adds a layer of complexity, and removes an important aspect
of math that is used by real-wold physics and calculus. Sines and
Cosines are important. Students taught this 'new math' would have
diffic
On 9/18/05, Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://physorg.com/news6555.html
>
> Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New
> South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane
> rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and ta
http://physorg.com/news6555.html
Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New
South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane
rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from
the trigonometric toolkit.
What's more, his simple new f
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