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To: elmatador who wrote (16608)	3/8/2002 4:06:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<The math-challenged, she says, are the result of poor teaching rather than the person not being able to master it.> I'm inclined to agree. Maths is a language to model the 3D world, just as words are. Just as various people have various abilities, there will be amazing and hopeless mathematics speakers, no matter how young or how skilled the teaching. Maths is more difficult to learn than visual/linguistic language because it isn't used in a feedback loop into the infant's brain from day one. We are made with eyes and ears and voices, but not with maths feedback loops. Females are worse off with learning maths language than males [statistically-speaking, which is why females can't understand this argument...hahaha...Catch22 for them...they'll go around that logic loop for a while]. Females mature earlier; they get their full complement of neurons and development experience before they even start to learn the language of maths to describe the 3D world [other than bits of counting and arithmetic]. If people had maths feedback loops from day one, they'd be great mathematicians. If people can learn English, they can learn calculus [if they start young enough and get the right feedback loops]. Calculus and maths are fun. It's a way of making the world crystal clear. It is satisfying to have problems resolve into crystal clear solutions. Written language is opaque, diffuse, ambiguous and often unintelligible. Words are used in multiple ways. CDMA systems for example [yes, here is CDMA saving the world] are a beautiful mathematical description of reality which is so precise it can take voice from anywhere and deliver it to anywhere, weaving wave functions in and out of Gaussian noise, splitting them out into their destinations precisely. Not that I can do it~! I just admire the beauty like I admire a rainbow and an ocean. More on "CDMA saves the world". Jay, India is going to do very well. They have got the foundations for civilisation and rapid development once they get the right mental paradigm for financial freedom. China is off and running. Message 17157202 <...Qualcomm on Wednesday said, it now plans to focus its investments in India on development of software applications for advancing the spread of Code Division Multiple Access technology. Qualcomm Chief Executive Irwin Jacobs told the Times News Network that the company is on the look out for strategic investments for advancing developments in CDMA technology in the country. Jacobs said that the company would also look for partners to set up a CDMA R&D facility in the country. The estimated cost of such a set up would be around $20 million, directed from Qualcomm's $400 million global fund. Qualcomm may also tie up with some third party that manufacture CDMA hand sets, said the chief executive. For this purpose, the company plans to take up equity positions in software application development firms that are involved in development of applications related to CDMA technology Qualcomm had in January this year taken a 4 per cent stake in Reliance Infocom, the telex and IT arm of Reliance group, for $200 million. Reliance Infocom plans to introduce mobile phone service across the country based on Qualcomm’sa CDMA 2000 1X technology. The technology can transmit both voice and data and offer features comparable with 3G technology. CDMA 2000 1X technology can transmit data at a speed of 307 kbps as compared to 9.6 kbps on GSM. Jacobs said India would emerge as one of the biggest markets for CDMA technology in the world. CMDA WLL technology is advantageous in built-up, densely populated urban areas, where laying of cable is neither easy nor economically viable. Its also useful in adverse terrain and remote and rural areas where subscriber density is low. ...>