On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:23:33PM -0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>If you understand _nothing_ discussed on a mailing list, there's no
>point in subscribing. Similarly if you understand _everything_. You
>can always delete the messages which you consider beyond your
>intellect, or beneath contempt. Personally I like the range we have
>at present.
Yes -- that is my opinion too. I skim quite a lot, though ;-)
>Some of the deeper maths makes me go away & read up on the topic, &
>occasionally I get a bit wiser as a result.
Hmmm, I think I've learned quite a bit of maths just be skimming :-)
It's surprising how much you can learn just by looking at a clueful
calculation, even if you don't really understand the maths behind it.
Now, just to print out my maths hand-in where one of the proofs utilizes
(simple!) modular arithmetic, which I've learned... here. :-) (We haven't
had it in school yet, but I suppose we will next year.)
(If anybody wants to know, it's `prove that n^3 - n has 24 as a factor,
for odd n' :-) )
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