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Article #116Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:00
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:00
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In article <1992Apr16.190912.25532@kodak.kodak.com> vec@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Vance Cochrane) writes:
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>Sorry but "100 times lighter" implies 1/100 which is division.
>If you are interested in precision, please indicate how you translate 100 times
>lighter into a subtractive operation.
If I make an object 20% heavier, I add .2 times its mass. If I make an
object 75% lighter, I subtract 75% of its mass. If I make it 100 time
lighter I subtract 100 times its mass. That leaves it with a mass -99 times
its previous value.
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Perhaps I owe you an apology. I had assumed that the "ACM" in 'comp.org.acm'
stood for "Association for Computing Machinery", an organization whose members
possess a modicum of mathematical literacy together with something of a sense
of humor. Obviously I was seriously mistaken.
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Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!psuvax1!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct! Message-ID: <1992Apr16.220014.16099@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <1992Apr16.152028.20665@kodak.kodak.com> <1992Apr16.175710.801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Apr16.190912.25532@kodak.kodak.com> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:00:14 GMT Lines: 18