Her favorite joke was about overhearing a colleague muttering to himself while using a sliderule for simple multiplication.
"Two times three equals 5.999.... Oh, heck, just call it six!" On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:56 AM, John Abreau <j...@blu.org> wrote: > My high school chemistry teacher taught us how to use a sliderule. She > *hated* pocket calculators with a passion, and said that they rotted the > brain. > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > >> On 01/20/2014 09:19 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: >> >> Lloyd Kvam writes: >> >> >> * Public Key Encryption >> >> I took a class at UNH when I was a high-school senior (wooly mammoths >> were still wandering around campus back then...). It was a class with a >> topic of number theory. I liked all of the math proofs in the class >> -- very cool stuff. I really wasn't prepared for the class but I did >> the best that I could. >> >> As I sat in these classes on Saturday mornings, it did occur to me >> that a lot of this stuff was pretty dry. I couldn't see the point of >> the mathematical excercises that we were going through ("why on Earth >> do I care if two numbers are 'relatively prime'?", I mused). I >> couldn't fathom how any of this stuff could be used in the Real World. >> >> Everything that I thought about these Saturday morning classes changed >> during the last class. We had a guest lecturer that day -- a >> professor named David Burton. He came into the classroom with a >> twinkle in his eye and told us that he was going to teach us some >> interesting things that morning. In the next two hours he taught us >> the basics of symmetric key cryptography, and then he moved onto DH >> key-exchange and public-key crypto. He built on all of the concepts >> that we had learned in previous classes. I took notes like crazy that >> morning -- this really was some interesting stuff that this Professor >> Burton was teaching us. Wow.... >> >> >> Anyways, I look back upon that morning (eons ago) pretty fondly. One >> of the things that I do as a software engineer is to design and >> implement secure systems and protocols. I still use the knowledge >> that I gained on that Saturday morning as a high-school senior pretty >> frequently. >> >> Regards, >> >> --kevin >> >> When I was in High School I learned how to program a slide rule. >> >> -- >> Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> <g...@blu.org> >> Boston Linux and Unix >> PGP key id:3BC1EB90 >> PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> >> > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 > 63C6 > 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 > 92D8 > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8
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