Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 20 21:40:09 2004

> > Maybe US schools are different to those in the UK, but over here,
> > fundamentals are most certainly not being taugh. Heck,
> > logarithms are no
> > longer taught in the the equivalent of your high schools, I believe.
>
> Log tables and their use don't seem to be.
>
> > [FIWW< the 'justification' for that is that logarithms were
> > only used to
> > make it easier to multiply numbers, and as everyone does that on a
> > calculator now, logarithms have no use. You know as well as I do that
> > this is totally bogus!]
>
> Well the principles behind logarithms do still
> seem to be taught, if my son's experience is

THis may vary by examination board, but at the HPCC meeting last week,
one of the members brought alogn a Sharp calculator 'recomended for
A-level' The thing was, it didn't have any logarithm or e^X keys (it did
have y^x). And teachers at the club meeting confirmed that, yes,
logarithms were not longer required to be taught.

-tony
Received on Sun Jun 20 2004 - 21:40:09 BST