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In article <55lss3$eh@smash.gatech.edu>,
John Trainor <jtrainor@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> wrote:
>In article <01bbcaa0$c18c5c00$90197fce@gdmedia.texas.net>,
>Gary <gdmedia@texas.net> wrote:
>>whatever it means to me personally.  My vote has never swung an election
>>yet, and the chances that it ever will are about the same as the chances of
>
>Ok, now for a little lesson in calculus and in voting.
>
>In integral calc, there exists a little bitty thing of infinitesimal
>size. we will call it a 'dx' in this discussion.  Alone, this
>'dx' isn't much, it is really small.  In fact, its width approaches
>the length 0.  Well, although it is not much alone, if you add
>up all of these little 'dx' pieces, you get the big area under a
>curve.  

Actually, if you add up all these little 'dx' pieces, you get the 
distance the curve travels in the x direction.  You kinda need to
multiply each and every dx with it's associated y to get an area
(x*y).  It is when you add up all the y(x) * dx, that you get the
total area under the curve.  But of course, you knew that.  ;^)

Rick





>So, without the contribution of all of the 'dx' pieces,
>we would not know the area, or the area would be incorrect.
>

Actually, the area when adding up all the dx pieces is not correct
either.  It too is only an approximation (and a damn good one at that).
As the popular vote has been shown statistically to not vary much from 
large sample to large sample, this approximation is also pretty damn good.
I agree with Gary that your vote is as worthless as a politician in 
congress (that's about half the value of tits on a bullfrog ;^).




>Your vote is very similar to the 'dx'.  Alone, it seems fairly
>insignificant.  All of the 'dx's' summed together, though, make
>a picture of who should serve in what role in our government.  Without
>your vote, the election is incorrect and the voice of you and the
>electorate has not been accurately portrayed.
>
>So, just remember that your vote _does_ make a difference just
>as the flapping of the wings of a butterfly make a difference.
>

Yup, one flap more or less here and there won't make the difference 
between whether the butterfly is in the air or on the ground.  Then
again, what does a butterfly know about calculus.  ;^)

Rick
























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