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

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jun 23 18:22:05 2004

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 22:24, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> > I seem to recall for my degree anything requiring databooks would be
> > done as coursework, not as an exam in an exam hall - which seems the
> > logical approach.
>
> Nah. Course work was invented for wimps who could not
> cope with the fact that the worth of their entire lives
> up to that point was going to be measured in three days
> or so :-)

Heh, true. I remember our exams were always about the last of all the
degree courses in the year, so we'd be queued up outside the exam halls
whilst there were loads of people around us out enjoying the summer.
Gits.

> Absolutely. I'd be lost without addition and multiplication.
> Subtraction is pretty useful but division just seems to be
> an optimisation that I can often get by without :-)
> I'm trying to think of the last time I needed any
> vector calculus or Cachy-Riemann or even simple
> control theory. There's the occasional would-this-
> other-algorithm-be-any-better, but not often.

I you mention complex numbers, I'll have to shoot you :-) Seriously, I'm
not a maths person at all - I just can't get my brain around it. I could
cope with the sort of maths I needed for computing work, but any more
than that and I would have been stuck...

> Actually, I was going to point out that the
> world has been in terminal decline for all
> of recorded history, but I'm afraid the
> pyramids may crop up again :-)

Maybe if we decline any further the aliens will come along and help us
out ;-)

seeya

Jules
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 18:22:05 BST