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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16665)	3/9/2002 6:37:11 AM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<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.>> Hmm, sounds like the fantasy of the technophile. To harness mankind's cleverness to eliminate the confusion and ambiguity of a messy world. But isn't this is just a variation on a theme - to look for certainty in a uncertain world. The stone-age man creating the omnipotent god(s) responsible for controlling the bizarre and frightening natural events around him or the modern- day investor looking to AG and his magic wand of interest rate modifications to "control" the economy. Well, these "gods" might be a fantasy but they fulfill their purpose - to bring comfort to the frightened in an uncertain world... <<Written language is opaque, diffuse, ambiguous and often unintelligible. >> Did you mean to say language? or women? (Doesn't matter, both exhibit the same deficiency (ie, a woeful lack of precision for a certainty-loving person). <<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. >> Actually, if I had to guess I'd say you like the genius of CDMA just a little bit more than the rainbow or the ocean. Seems to me that people fall into two groups - those that like to receive their daily dose of endorphins from intellectual stimulation and those given to the more physical modes of endorphin stimulation (lazy, troppo types prowling for naughty smiles from nubile island girls?). John