T&T: Angels au point
Jim Davey
jdavey1 at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 15 22:03:32 EDT 2008
Larry,
I wish this was a math forum so I could discuss your "(i.e., 0/0 = 1)".
However, the tarp is off in three days and then I'll be trying to figure out
how many amps can dance on the end of a 2/0 cable!
Jim
> From: LRZeitlin at aol.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:07:48 -0400> To:
trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com> Subject: Re: T&T: Angels au point>
> In a message dated 4/15/08 12:00:55 AM, Ken writes:> > > > guess next, I
will discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin,> > or some other
equally scintillating topic.> > {;-)> > > > > Ken,> > The true philosophical
question is "How many angels can dance on the POINT of > a pin?" The topic was
engendered by medieval scholastic thinkers confronting > the conflicting ideas
that a point had zero area and angels had zero > dimension. The answers given
ranged from one (i.e., 0/0 = 1) to Avogadro's number (a > conclusion favored
by my old professor of chemistry).> > My boat gets launched in a couple of
weeks and I can start wondering about > the number of miles I can cruise as
fuel prices approach infinity.> > Larry Z> > > > > **************> It's Tax
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