From: Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T19:48:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Trig value errors

As a general comment: "MINASWAN", or to be precise "MINASWA mostly N"
  "And your Mom, too." Ruby-talk best practices
  http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/and_your_Mom_too.html

And now thoroughly OT:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Phillip Gawlowski <pg@thimian.com> wrote:
> On 23.12.2009 18:45, pharrington wrote:
>> Now that we're thoroughly off topic :)

Not necessarily a bad thing! :)

> My pleasure. ;)
>
> I have to disagree. While physics, or chemistry, uses math to yield results
> of some form (statistics, for example, to evaluate an experiment), you could
> replace math with something, if you so desired.
> Essentially, what happens in physics happens whether there is math or not.

A mathematician (I think Ian Stewart) has observed that the physicists
would have derived the parts of group theory that they needed if
it hadn't been previously derived by the mathematicians.

> And thusly, I'll keep my mouth shut about the topic now, but if further
> discussion is desired, I'm more than happy to continue it off-list. :)

Same here: I think my email address is visible?
I even have an (ancient) mathematical joke to illustrate the points,
which I hesitate to inflict on ruby-talk in general.

Colin Bartlett