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bobbym · 2012-01-23 04:59:53

Sorry, the word jargon could be thought of as jargon. Basically it the use of big, trade words to show off and mask the meaning of a simple concept. Doctors do it and so do mathematicians.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 05:04:59

Yeah, I'd love to see someone try to explain group theory and Z-set-theory or whatever to me in language of a high school kid.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 05:10:54

Ditto. I do not think that will happen though.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 05:16:43

Oh, but at least numerical examples could be strewn into a long book to give you a basic idea!! Certainly someone will eventually do that.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 05:18:51

I remember me and gAr having that discussion. Without examples I am lost but still the traditional books are without them. Or the examples are not well chosen.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 05:24:54

Same gpes for pronunciation keys in dictionaries. They could expand the word example for each sound by at least 25 times if they wanted clarity.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 05:30:40

It sure would help with mathematics. I keep almost nothing but examples in my notebooks.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 06:19:07

I purchased a calculus book just full of examples once, but I don't know if I kept it.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 06:31:27

Calculus is good for that. Ity is usually application oriented so lots of examples.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 06:56:34

Good point! Calculus is really into reality, isn't it?

bobbym · 2012-01-23 07:03:29

Yes, it is good for people who like applied mathematics.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 07:40:51

Did you know that Richard Feynman could do calculations in his head very fast, like dividing, multiplying I guess? He worked nearer to you at Los Alamos and his wife was sick in the hospital.

Then over this way, in Eastern Tennesee we have Oakridge. Also a center of intelligence.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 07:45:02

It is a gift that some people have. It generally goes away the older you get.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 07:49:29

I find the opposite for myself. I am getting better at holding numbers in my head and calculating as I add to my methods each year with new ones. I do a lot of substitution, such as assigning words to all the numbers from 00 to 99. Also, I am currently using the 10-pin bowling triangle of pins numbering from 1 to 10 for 1 to 9 and zero, in order to remember the remaining atomic weights I am forgetting.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 07:51:26

You might be one of those that hold on to it or even increase it.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 07:52:46

Well, I won't smoke too much, just a pack a year, so that probably won't hurt too much.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 07:54:32

How can you smoke a pack per year? Do you go on a binge and smoke them all in one day or do you take one every once in a long while?

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 07:58:57

I smoke half a cigarrette forty times per year on average. I put it out in the middle and reuse it a week later.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 08:03:46

My brother does the same thing.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 08:18:59

Might as well save'm, they cost a lot. But for me, it's only $6.25 a year. I haven't smoked one for about a month now though. I haven't bought my new yearly pack yet either. I still have four cigs left from last year in car.

bobbym · 2012-01-23 08:20:59

So you are down to 16 per year!

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 08:23:22

Yes, that's right!! Do you smoke one cigarrette per year or zero?

bobbym · 2012-01-23 08:24:35

I never smoked. Pretty much the only one in my family that did not.

John E. Franklin · 2012-01-23 08:34:45

So you did inhale some 2nd hand smoke as a child like I did?

bobbym · 2012-01-23 08:36:50

Oh heck yea. Both my parents were heavy smokers from when they were in their teens. It killed both of them before their times.

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