<quote who="Mark Greenaway"> > To draw an analogy: I'm studying a lot of pure maths.
... > I really like knowing how, for instance, the real number system works and > interacts with calculus. But I don't think it's necessary to understand > Dedekind cuts and how the rational number system is extended to the real > number system in order to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right > angled triangle with sides of unit length and understand the answer you > get. Well, it looks like you're doing pretty well as a pure mathematician, but I think you have some study left to do, because I still run into the practical application of Pythagoras every now and then. Perhaps if you had compared it to something more obtuse (girly giggle), such as differential geometry, you might have pulled off that delightfully cantankerous pure mathematician air. Keep it up! - Jeff -- OSCON 2007: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/ "We've got a great drummer and a great singer. Those are the key positions. When you find a singer and a drummer this good, you don't leave them." - Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
