From: Yash (yashk2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 19:13:35 MST
Mermaid,
I know you have been.
I think it could matter. cf. the discussion with Kalkor about a society
attaining immortality but wiped out by an asteroid hit.
Imagine some catastrophy rendering all such artifical systems unuseable.
What is left? The survivors and their memory, and their mantras, and their
knowledge of how to decode them.
Civilization catalysts...For rebuilding.
I sometimes use the fast math to check my bills at the local store. I don't
need to pull out any calculator although I have one on my cell-phone and
another one on the Today page of my PocketPC.
Yash.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Mermaid .
<Hermit quoted>
To some extent, they serve as memory aids to the practitioners. Other than
that, their sole role has been as props to the false pretense of antiquity.
The main positive contribution of Tirthaji's book lies in highlighting some
tricks with which certain specific calculations can be done faster. In this
sense, it is comparable to Trachtenberg's methods of `high speed'
computation.
[Mermaid]I have been braying about this all through this 'discussion'.
Mnemonic-fucking-aids!! Fast-computation!! I suppose it doesnt matter much
in a society where there are wallet sized instruction cards to calculate 15%
tips at restaurants.
REALITY: http://911audio.com/audio_files/math.html
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