Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reminds me of my days as a Teaching Assisistant in 1st year physics lab. These were the days when electronic calculators were just becoming popular among students. One of the experiments required the calculation of SIN(45º), which I believe is something like 1/sqrt(2). (I'm allowed to forget this now, those students weren't!). The point is, sin(45) has an exact value, and was a clue from the geometry of the experiment. But that didn't stop students from calculating it to be .707106781.... They missed the point. dan c. At 04:23 PM 25-02-01 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: >> And there are people who add 2 and 2 and get 5. different >> perception levels. > >But that is true for moderately high values of 2 ;-) > >