T&T: Angel dance

[Lawrence Zeitlin]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Larry wrote:

> how many angels can dance on the head of a pin

Larry, Just to keep the T&T list linguistically pure, it is POINT of  
a pin, not HEAD of a pin. The medieval scholastic philosophers  
pondering the topic assumed that since the point of a pin had no area  
and angels had no substance, the numerically correct answer was  
either zero or infinite. But you are right, it is a question akin to  
one engine or two. Just like so many cruising topics, there is no  
absolutely right answer.

Larry Z