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To: kormac who wrote (68672)	10/21/2005 5:41:56 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 74559

I think your quote came from James Gleick's Chaos You are correct. Thanks for the comments. I would like to look them up. I studied Physics during the 70's and some mathematic methods for the physical sciences were part of the course. I always was attracted to mathematics but merely dabbled in it. The indirect contributors to the mathematics of chaos, and branches of science that now use the mathematics, are of course the inventors of the calculator, computers and the PC. Guys like Steve Jobs, though I think IBM deserves a mention too -g- ei.cs.vt.edu Without them, the study of non linear science would have been tedious indeed. My super duper slide rule I bought at a knock down price of £5 in 1973 on leaving high school would not have been much use. Calculators were available at about £400. Who needed calculation accuracy greater then three significant figures though? What a waste of money I thought at the time. And this was from a guy who studied physics, normally a rather nutty set of people, who like to study lots of significant figures just for the hell of it.

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