Re: commas and sense

2003-12-27 Thread adS
> >>Even a mathematical idiot will know that 2 is even and 3 is odd... > > > well yes, but the idea that any number of two's multiplied together is still even > and any number of three's odd requires a bit of induction and a small leap of > thought. Well, yes, my cats probably can't do it - th

Re: commas and sense

2003-12-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
> well yes, but the idea that any number of two's multiplied together is still > even and any number of three's odd requires a bit of induction and a small > leap of thought. Clearly, my friend, you have not had the privilege of > teaching a non-major's math or mathematical science course to a US c

commas and sense

2003-12-27 Thread BobClair or EkkoJennings
(repeat, first try seems to have evaporated into cyber space) Yes Stewart, it was a joke. Sometimes I tell it sometimes not. What I do, when they are finished rolling their eyes, is move the second fret into the equal tempered position, tune a just 10th between the open 4th string and the second