[rescue] FrameMaker FYI

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Thu Mar 25 22:23:11 CST 2004


> > I had a Physics teacher in HS (He was greek, and, according to him, 
> > the Greek invented almost everything ;^), and he loved to show us neat 
> > tricks, like finding the area under a curve - draw it on graph paper, 
> > then cut it out and weigh it (with a very accurate scale!), then, cut 
> > a known quantity, say 4 or 16 squares from the same graph paper - by 
> > comparing the known to the unknown, and the two weights, the area 
> > under the curve can be found - without Calculus...
> 
>    I still think "calculus" sounds like something you go to a doctor to 
> have removed.

Well, technically you could go to a brain surgeon and have enough bits
removed so you no longer could understand calculus.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net



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