time. Later I got caught doing a question that way by my math
teacher and he asked who showed me that. I told him I'd come up
with it myself, so he wrote down a Super long Algebra question
and told me to try that one. It took me a minute or so longer
than usual but I did sort it out, and he informed me what I'd
just done was 2nd year level University Calculus.

I'd never even heard of Calculus before that. (It was a Grade 13
math course at that time.) It was actually rather disappointing.
I thought I'd invented something new.. B)

I took algebra and calculus in school, and had to take a semester of calc
in college. I have never, ever thought of it as a shortcut to figuring anything out. :D I guess maybe it works that way if you really know what
you are doing.

Mike
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all types of books. You learn about different countries and cultures,
the past and educated guesses at the future a well as mythology and
there's Real science often buried in the science fiction books, etc..

Not too long ago in another forum, I had someone tell me that there
doesn't need to be any real science in science-fiction in order for it to
be science-fiction. IMHO, it needs to have some resemblence to science,
i.e. something that might be possible, or all it can be is fantasy.

Mike
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MIKE POWELL wrote to ROB MCCART <=-

Not too long ago in another forum, I had someone tell me that there doesn't need to be any real science in science-fiction in order for it
to be science-fiction. IMHO, it needs to have some resemblence to science, i.e. something that might be possible, or all it can be is fantasy.

Look at "Star Trek". The show inspired people to create many devices and technology we enjoy today, like the tablets they used.

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I'd never even heard of Calculus before that. (It was a Grade 13

>> math course at that time.) It was actually rather disappointing.
>> I thought I'd invented something new.. B)

I took algebra and calculus in school, and had to take a semester of calc

>in college. I have never, ever thought of it as a shortcut to figuring
>anything out. :D I guess maybe it works that way if you really know what
>you are doing.

I never found a use for Calculus outside of school but anyone who
does a lot of computer pregramming is usually well aware of Algebra.
I wrote one financial program that had a line with over 20 levels
of parenthesis with multiple variables.

There were simpler ways to do it in multiple steps but I figured
if it works in one operation, why use more lines of code.. B)

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all types of books. You learn about different countries and cultures,

>> the past and educated guesses at the future a well as mythology and
>> there's Real science often buried in the science fiction books, etc..

Not too long ago in another forum, I had someone tell me that there

>doesn't need to be any real science in science-fiction in order for it to
>be science-fiction. IMHO, it needs to have some resemblence to science,
>i.e. something that might be possible, or all it can be is fantasy.

This is true, and I've read both types of books, and both can be
entertaining, but I usually more enjoy the ones with some real
science in them. I enjoy learning new things..

But the books I read cover a vast range of types and subjects,
some with no redeeming qualities other than an interesting story.

I've read a lot of books listed as Fantasy, usually intended for
Young Adults, containing Witches and Vampires and all sorts of odd
things and they are a break from reading books about Science, the
Military, Lawyers, Police or the vast number of Mysteries written
by women who want to be Agatha Christie when they grow up.. B)

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I took algebra and calculus in school, and had to take a semester of calc

>in college. I have never, ever thought of it as a shortcut to figuring
>anything out. :D I guess maybe it works that way if you really know what
>you are doing.

I never found a use for Calculus outside of school but anyone who
does a lot of computer pregramming is usually well aware of Algebra.
I wrote one financial program that had a line with over 20 levels
of parenthesis with multiple variables.

The "never thought of it as a shortcut" was a reference to Calc. I did use Algebra plenty after leaving school, as you mention, in programming.

There were simpler ways to do it in multiple steps but I figured
if it works in one operation, why use more lines of code.. B)

Agreed. ;)

Mike

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