John Francis wrote: > 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. > > Christie says "I like him." She doesn't think very much of me at the moment, though.
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