🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Webb <tswebb@uswest.net> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
>> Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
>>>> Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote

>> As are those who insist on using mental arithmetic and a pencil and paper
>> instead of a spreadsheet for relatively complex dynamic calculations.

> In referance to this exact statement ALL complex and
> dynamic mathmatical calclations are done in the HEAD first,

Wrong with what most spreadsheets are used for.

> their is no system or computer that can match the mind
> in its ability to dynamically change the way that a series
> is going when you dont know what the end is going to be.

I wasnt using the term in that sense. I was using it
in the sense of the data values being used changing.

Like say using a spreadsheet to keep track of what
your stocks are currently worth and how each stock
has done over time etc. Only a dill uses a pencil and
paper and mental arithmetic for that anymore.

> Once their is an understanding then you can use a glorified
> calculator otherwise known as a computer, and build a program
> model.  Ask Mr. Steven Hawkins how he does his calculations.

Got SFA to do with what most spreadsheets are used for. Ask
virtually all accountants how they do their calculations. Hint: hardly
any use a pencil and paper and mental arithmetic any more.

> I am not inviting any anger, nor do I give it.

Who said anything about anger ?  Only you.

> Life is allways sending us enough trouble so that we do
> not need to look for it, in this very long thread it appears
> that all feel that they have been missunderstood,

Thats mad too.

> and I have enjoyed the attempts to vent that all have used, however, if I
> could simply say that if everyone went back to the start and re-read it all,
> not now, but some other time, I think that everyone would find it amusing.

Thats mad too on the everyone. Some presumably would regret how
silly they looked, even if they wouldnt admit that to themselves |-)