On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:27:39PM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: > Steve Desjardins wrote: > > Sure, according to the Mathematicians. And they're almost as unhelpful > > as the philosophers. > > I happen to like mathematicians quite a bit. They're much more useful > than philosophers. Granted, it helps than I'm married to one. Now if > only I could teach her to add 2+2 in her head.....
A mathematician doesn't care what the value of 2+2 is; it's sufficient to show that the answer is unique (and independent of the order in which you take the addends :-). Relating this to things that happen in the real world is a physics problem. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
