On other matters, when the S&P was down 9, Maria said it was down "fractionally."
9/(1000 + x), is a fraction, luckily for Maria.
(x > 0, but I don't recall its exact value then).
It's interesting that Euclid is your guru.
The story goes that an Italian gambling couple who loved to play Euchre had migrated to Greece because their little son loved Aris turtles. Well, they had a neighbour who would always steal the top off their box of Euchre cards, after they played a game of Euchre. The morning after a night of Euchre reveling it was not uncommon to hear the wife waving her plump little fists and screaming over the neighbour's fence "Basta! You Ptolemy you did not take the Euchre lid, but you did!".
Years later, they named their second son Euchrelid (or Euclid, for short), and their neighbours (the godparents) gave them a box with a non-detachable lid for their cards.
This is how Euclid became interested in the geometry of shapes, starting out with rectangular boxes. It was all in the cards. But that is another story.
J :) |
