"The way his horses ran could be summed up in a word. Last. He once had a horse who finished ahead of the winner of the 1942 Kentucky Derby. Unfortunately, the horse started running in the 1941 Kentucky Derby." -- (Groucho Marx)
John Napier (1550-1617): A native of Scotland, Napier invented logarithms as a laborsaving device to speed up numerical computation processes. His invention was enthusiastically adopted throughout Europe. Today we consider a logarithm as an exponent, but Napier never thought of his discovery in this way. Interestingly, Napier, like Michael Stifel (1486-1567) before him, was a number mystic, and spent time attempting to determine a date upon which the world would end.
When Herkimer ran a casino, what did he tell the wife of a doctor who wanted to have her husband paged?
Answer: "The house does not make doctor calls."
Things Herky would like to know:
Are there turtles that wear people-neck sweaters?
If a minister delivered a sermon that he simply made up as he was delivering it, would it be correct to say the he doesn't practice what he preaches?
ASSIGNMENT #50
Reading: Review Section 8.1, as necessary. Read Summary, page 432-433.
Exercises: See Items for reflection (below).
