[OT] Decibels and the ear [was: Re: [plug] Hot and bothered CPU hankers for cool breeze]

Richard Meyer meyerri at au1.ibm.com
Wed Dec 17 14:44:59 WST 2003





>Me too (wish I understood more, that is)!  Although there's no excuse
>for anyone not studying maths :-) even if our education system
>(including universities) seem to do their damnedest to put people off
>it...

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a
tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes
in the house.
--Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)

A favourite quote, though my own maths is rusty as can be.

RichardM





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