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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Quantum mystics
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:44:08 +0100
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On 10/06/2024 09:14, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> ... I was ok with mathematics in school until we started
>> on calculus. I could not, and still cannot, understand concepts such as
>> "vanishingly small".
> 
> 
> Calculus is to arithmetic what astrology is to astronomy.

:-)

More years ago than I care to remember I was coming back from the USA in 
business-class and sitting next to me was a woman dripping with 
jewellery. She was using a laptop and I could see she was writing 
horoscopes, from the Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, etc headings on the screen. 
Under them she was typing the details of each one for the day. Not only 
was she not referring to anything as to what astrologers might consider 
relevant for that day and that sign of the Zodiac, but she was cutting 
and pasting between them at random!

I assumed she was someone well known for writing horoscopes and they 
were syndicated. It sure seemed to pay well from the jewellery she had!

-- 
Jeff