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To: TobagoJack who wrote (125408)	11/29/2016 3:46:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217737

Same: << i am sooooo glad i am NOT in school>> My excuse is that it was insomnia at 4am and I did the others first to save number 3 expected to be difficult as you warned. These things are always amenable to intelligent thinking of tricks of the trade such as my suggestion of adding 1 to 100. By No. 3 I was nearly dropping the computer on the floor as I dozed off. I missed the 1 having to be in a different location in each number [hence my 256 possible numbers]. That does make it easy as you [or Erita] explained. As they would say for exams [50 years ago] "Make sure you read the question correctly". Looks as though the same applies. Today, reflecting on things, it crossed my mind regarding "What the hay those numbers are boring and who cares?" an intelligent girl would not be limited to words but would think in both words and mathematics which is just another symbolic representation of reality, like words, which turns beautiful once one gets beyond those simple and somewhat boring maths puzzles. Sudoku is tedious and not worth wasting time on. Computers can do that. Words and maths are not mutually exclusive and are in fact synergistic. It's hard to imagine being illiterate [numerically or scientifically] but hordes of people are, so are easily bamboozled and swindled. I have done some pretty cool maths, but seeing my solid state physicist neighbour's work in 1988 in Antwerp was truly impressive. It was page after page after page of abstruse maths that might as well have been Egyptian hieroglyphics, kanji, or Rosetta stone for all I could decipher. He was an academic at university in Antwerp. His friend was an optical fibre maker. I was beside myself with excitement to come across two magicians of the coming amazing world of Cyberspace who were actually doing it and knew what they were doing. BP Oil offered me the most perfect job I could possibly have [in their burgeoning computer division] but we were heading back to NZ. As it happened, that loss led to an even greater gain a year later, when I realized Fourier transforms could encrypt and transmit megabits jumbled up in the same spectrum, [I read about the problem of spectrum getting crowded with analogue wireless] and the sheer fluke a couple of years later happening upon somebody who worked at Qualcomm who told me my idea was in fact what they were doing. Talk about preparation meeting opportunity and the sheer luck of life. Without maths and science, I couldn't have thought of it and would have been forced to lead a much more financially limited life with a lot less interest. Words are nice but maths is money. Compare STEM pay rates and novel writing. Mqurice