On 2010/06/08, at 06:44 , Stanislav Jakuba wrote:
βHe who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.β
β John McCarthy (computer pioneer, Stanford University)
Stan Jakuba
Dear Stan,
I once attended a training session for building trades workers as one
of the session speakers for a minor afternoon session. The organisers
had obtained the services of a mathematics professor to do a keynote
speech on the 'metric system'. His presentation was so rarefied that I
could not understand most of it. However, I recall this conversation
between two attendees as they left the hall after the professor's
lecture.
Tradesman 1: 'What's a decimal?'
Tradesman 2: 'Yeah, and what's the point?'
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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