Re: [math-fun] Algebra I (RiP)
Bernie wrote: << A related amusing one is WRT temperatures: referring to something being twice as hot as something else [or more perplexing, half as warm or twice as cold].
Which is a bit like using the phrase "most unsuperlative" ; or one could ask which imaginary animal is "most nonexistent" ; and it could be quite useful to ask what of all things is the "most vacuous" , given how complicated a vacuum seems to be in modern physics. --Dan
Thank you, Dan. This is the most unique post I have ever read. Steve Gray Dan Asimov wrote:
Bernie wrote:
<< A related amusing one is WRT temperatures: referring to something being twice as hot as something else [or more perplexing, half as warm or twice as cold].
Which is a bit like using the phrase
"most unsuperlative"
; or one could ask which imaginary animal is
"most nonexistent"
; and it could be quite useful to ask what of all things is the
"most vacuous"
, given how complicated a vacuum seems to be in modern physics.
--Dan
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