Keymaster wrote: > Phil Leigh;463676 Wrote: >> Pat - you are the only person in the last 6 years I've spent online that >> has ever used the word "orthogonal" - a word I often use myself at work >> to all round blank stares :-) > > I'll admit it...I had no idea what the word meant, but I was fascinated > and intrigued, so I decided to have a look.
Interesting. when I was in a huge IT consulting company, we used it fairly frequently. Of course, we also used the phrase "Eschew obfuscation" when critiquing our proposals and other written documentation. > Thank you Pat and Phil for the nightmares; it's been ages since I've > seen math that so thoroughly freaked me out and made me curl up into a > regressive-flashback-Pythagorean-scaredy_cat-ball. In the consulting racket, and in arguing here, you can skip the math. It just means that the argument is in another dimension to the one being argued. You can move the argument to any point on the line, and it has zero impact on the prime argument. I generally don't have the "regressive-flashback-Pythagorean-scaredy_cat" reaction, but then again, I have a BS in Math and loved it. After the third time that I took calculus, I really understood it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
