"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is a wonder".- (M.C. Escher)
COUNTING AND COMPUTING DEVICES:
Human Fingers: Many cultures devised clever methods to use these ever-available counting and computing devices. Our fingers and toes total 20, accounting for some early 20-base number systems.
Greek mechanical computer (?): In 1900, Greek fisherman found a corroded mechanism estimated to be 2,000 years old at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. It appeared to be part of a geared computer-like device.
Quipus: The Incas of fifteenth- and sixteenth century South America used knotted and colored strings to keep complex records of everything from population to the amount of food a village needed to store for lean seasons.
Why wouldn't Herkimer supply a candle for the man who slept all day?
Answer: He believed there should be no wick for the rested.
Herky wants to know:
When a person says he is a "man of few words," why does he then use a few million of them?
If you make many mistakes in a single day, can you justify this by saying you got up early?
ASSIGNMENT #64
Reading: Section 10.3, pages 560-567, including SUMMARY on pages 566-567).
Exercises: 10.58 (page 562), 10.59, 10.60 (page 563), 10.61 (page 565), 10.62 (page 566), 10.63, 10.64, 10.65 (page 567).
Note: Most of these are short-answer type questions.
