Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner jotted down the following: > which says "so the answer is 10 to the 25th power angels can fit on the point > of a pin." That's a lot of angels and is wonderfully specific which I always > love! Not particularly specific at all. Now, 10.0^25 would have been specific, or 10.00000000^25 would have started to approximate "wonderfully specific", but 10^25 angels leaves room for a margin of error on the order of +-5 * 10^24, always assuming I remember this crap from my high school maths classes correctly, which I sincerely doubt, trying my best to sleep through most of anything related to maths. Maybe that's why I'm always so surprised when I get the credit card statement at the end of the month. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | "University diplomas, like today!" email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- eMail spam subject line www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------