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From: Mal on 28 Jul 2008 12:56
and found it quite handy. Much better than doing tedious long division. But
I now wonder if logs are taught at all now, what with calculators and
what-not.
And, come to think about it, what happened to the slide-rule? They were
quite handy too, but I haven't seen anyone use one for years.
The world is changing, but no-body tells me. ;o)
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Mal
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Anything that follows, is anybody's guess.


From: Mal on 28 Jul 2008 13:00

"Mal" <cobbler487-yeahright(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> and found it quite handy. Much better than doing tedious long division.
> But I now wonder if logs are taught at all now, what with calculators and
> what-not.
> And, come to think about it, what happened to the slide-rule? They were
> quite handy too, but I haven't seen anyone use one for years.
> The world is changing, but no-body tells me. ;o)

But obviously, I never learnt how to spell the word logarithm


From: Tim on 28 Jul 2008 13:05
Mal wrote:
> and found it quite handy. Much better than doing tedious long division. But
> I now wonder if logs are taught at all now, what with calculators and
> what-not.
> And, come to think about it, what happened to the slide-rule? They were
> quite handy too, but I haven't seen anyone use one for years.
> The world is changing, but no-body tells me. ;o)



I had a slide rule at school. I had just worked out which way round it
went when i stopped doing maths ;)

I belong to the league for the mathematically inept.
From: Tim on 28 Jul 2008 13:07
Mal wrote:

>
> But obviously, I never learnt how to spell the word logarithm
>
>
Ai neu wot ew ment.
From: Mal on 28 Jul 2008 14:11

"Tim" <timjim(a)letterboxes.org> wrote in message
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>
> I had a slide rule at school. I had just worked out which way round it
> went when i stopped doing maths ;)
>
> I belong to the league for the mathematically inept.

Do you find it strange, Tim, how different we all are? I was always good at
maths, my mental arithmetic was fast and sure, still is. I can beat Carol on
countdown. If I could have gone to university, I would have studied Maths,
Physics and Chemistry and probably Biology. I got GCE in all these subjects,
and it was a tad harder then. Alas it was not to be so. I became a physical
labourer.
I was lucky in the fact that I was taught by excellent school teachers,
and yes, they did make us chant our times-tables and things. Today they seem
to think that learning things parrot fashion is wrong. Not so .... ask the
parrots .... now considered much smarter than we ever took them for.
` Have you ever played darts with these people who can neither add nor
subtract, and they expect you to do it? How can you enjoy a game of darts
under those circumstances? You spend more time marking the board than
enjoying the game. Hell it leaves no time to have a drink.
I was taught arithmetic, algebra, and geometry at school, and never
heard of trigonemetry, and non euclidean stuff baffles me to this very day.
imaginary numbers, you know square roots of minus-numbers and other
stuff, how I wish I could have had some one to walk me through (just teach
me). Infinity and dividing by zero .... I would have loved to have learned
this stuff, sadly I have only a rudimentry understanding, how I have craved
for more, you would not believe, but too late now.
Not that it wasn't about, simply I was never offered the chance.
On the other hand, I could not stand music lessons, or art (I think we
used to call them drawing lessons) and I had a particular hatred for
woodwork,
I pissed about for 5 years, pretending to make a sea-grass stool (in
reality I used to do my latin homework, at which I was equally bad). My
mother refused to buy it (it was less than 5/-, and I don't blame her, it
was utter rubbish. and 5 shillings was 5 shillings) Now why did they waste
my time and their time teaching me carpentry? I had so little interest in
it. that I doubt if the son of god himself could have got me interested. He
was a carpenter I believe.
Now you might think I am drunk ...... you would be right in so thinking.
--
Mal
The first word I type in any message, has only a half chance of being true.
Anything that follows, is anybody's guess.


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