:) You failed to highlight the important part, "google the integral" When I was learning calculus back in the paleosilicate age, there was no Google. Yes, there were tables of integrals but no guarantee that the integral you wanted was in the table without clever trmsfrmation of the problem.
totally !!! there was no one to ask, poring over textbooks with nothing but hope, I deeply connect with this ... now all I need to do is to ask Gemini ! brand and brave new world. Always appreciate your thoughts Thomas
It's easy to have useful thoughts when you are a time capsule. :)
Seriously, I've heard it argues that, evolutionally, human longevity served the social purpose of preserving knowledge over long time periods. That's less useful now knowledge can be stored in other ways, but still not useless. I've heard education described as making the person "artificially old."
:) You failed to highlight the important part, "google the integral" When I was learning calculus back in the paleosilicate age, there was no Google. Yes, there were tables of integrals but no guarantee that the integral you wanted was in the table without clever trmsfrmation of the problem.
totally !!! there was no one to ask, poring over textbooks with nothing but hope, I deeply connect with this ... now all I need to do is to ask Gemini ! brand and brave new world. Always appreciate your thoughts Thomas
It's easy to have useful thoughts when you are a time capsule. :)
Seriously, I've heard it argues that, evolutionally, human longevity served the social purpose of preserving knowledge over long time periods. That's less useful now knowledge can be stored in other ways, but still not useless. I've heard education described as making the person "artificially old."
You mean like a human form of hieroglyphics?