Re: Con-other

In a message dated 5/29/2008 21:28:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
rfmilly@MSN.COM writes:


> >I showed it to one of my math teachers, and she was like "Huh?", and
> >totally didn't understand what I had done, or how I had sixteen numbers.
> >That was about the point where I stopped paying attention in class.
> >
> That's really sad. Shame on her!! My education in math wasn't the greatest;
> I guess by high school I'd heard of duodecimal, but had no idea how you
> worked in it. Then in the 60s, at my second try at college, one of the
> required courses was "Intro to Math"-- Morris Kline's "New Math" was the fad
> then, and it turned out to be a fascinating course. At least I still
> remember our other base systems work and why...:-))) though the various
> converters online help out.
>

I had a teacher who noticed that I was bored and drawing tesseracts, show she
lent me a book on 4-dimensional geometry.

stevo   </HTML>

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