Re: Meyer Circuit Experiment

From: Don Lancaster (don_at_tinaja.com)
Date: 09/07/04


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:41:57 -0700

Harry Conover wrote:

>
> Today things have sharply changed, and I've even run into young
> engineers that need to pull out a calculator to compute the sin or
> cosine of 30 and 60 degree angles, yet alone recognise such elementary
> basics as Sin^2 + Cos^2 = 1 or what a derivative or integral
> physically denotes. I've never considered myself to be particularly
> stong in mathematics, but still...Sheesh!
>
>

Just came from a fast food restaurant where they insisted a 15% discount
on a $16.35 bill was twenty eight cents.

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