Re: MD Analog computers

[elephant]

Here those iMacs fall....
 
> JONATHAN:
> The falling apple is an analogue computer that operates according
> to very precise rules.
> 
> ELEPHANT:
> Apples are not computers.  Apples are Apples.  Computers are Computers.

JONATHAN: 
> This misses the point entirely. Peter answered it for me
> 
> PETER:
>> Almost anything can be an analogue computer
>> for almost anything else, can't it?

JONATHAN: 
> Precisely


ELEPHANT:
"Precisely"?  Strikes me that if almost anything can be an analogue computer
for anything else then "precise" is the very last word I'd use to describe
the oxymoronic notion "analogue computer".  I'm quite sure that was the
"precisely" the point Peter was making: he was pulling your leg, tickling
your instep, pulling a face.  Did you laugh?  Did you get it?  Did you feel
the weight of many pennys droping apple-fashion without the aid of a single
calculation?  Did you pi squared.

E



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