Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (136464)	3/3/2007 10:30:30 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

most important physical creation is the magnet. Without we'd still be riding horses. It sounds crazy but its true. Yes, indeed. Several years ago I watched a program in which a panel including Neil Armstrong ranked the top ten scientific achievements of the last century. Rural electrification was Number One. I like math, but for me it's a means to an end. For example, in my profession we use a measuring tape in which the inches are marked in units of 1 inch times Pi. We called it a diameter tape, because you put it around a cylindrical object like a tree and it reads the diameter directly. The Poisson Distribution is another math concept that I used routinely in forestry. It allowed me to predict tree density by measuring the distance to the nearest tree from a sample point.