Tim Peters wrote: > That vaguely reminds me of a puzzle I enjoyed much as a kid: on what > day will you be half as old as your father? a third as old? a > quarter as old? three-quarters as old? nine-tenths as old? ... It's > a good way of showing that x/(x+d), for fixed positive d, approaches 1 > from the left as x goes to infinity. Unfortunately, my own father > died before I became twice as old as him ;-)
I called my father up within an hour of when he was twice as old as I. I was expecting a real "you are such a dweeb" conversation, but he wound up talking a lot about what it felt like when I was born. It was such a wonderful surprise; a great conversation for both of us. -- Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
