The Peoples’ Front of Mathematica will not be mocked!
Okay, time for a bad economist joke, similar to the programmer one:
A chemist, physicist and economist are stranded on a desert island. A can of pork and beans washes ashore.
Chemist: Let’s try to start a fire, and then the heat from the fire will cause the beans and juice to expand and burst the can open.
Physicist: Let’s get a rock and just bash it open!
Economist: Let’s assume we have a can opener…
Also, why in god’s name is the thread that inspired me in the first place up to six pages? WILL NO ONE STOP THE INSANITY???
Would that mean I’d be the poster formerly known as Fern?
I think we’re overlooking the benefits of an infinitely based number system. In one fell swoop the whole “does 0.999… = 1?” would instantly become irrelavent since there’d be no decimals. You’d never have to round off to the nearest decimale since each and every number would be perfectly precise. We’d have a lot of fun coming up with all the symbols for all the numbers we’re going to need. And for all those mathaphobic people you’d never have to do math since there’d be no way to possible way anyone could remember enough of them to be useful. You’d just carry around a PDA which tells what number + or - or * or / another number is.
hurrys to join the lines of the front
Hi? Hello? Did I miss anything?
Is it possible we could come up with a way to get maths out of physics? I might be able to DO physics if there was less math!
Ah, but it was the fanatical adherance to a certain set of so-called ‘mathematical truths’ that caused the murder of that revolutionary figure…we are just the new revolutionaries, and there will always be poor misguided souls who oppose us; let’s just hope they all follow your approach of inadvertantly backing up our arguement
