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From: cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com (Bob Casanova)
Subject: Re: Stapp, PK & Physics Today
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In article <NEWTNews.809116926.30963.richard.caldwell@oufan.oklaosf.state.ok.us> Richard Caldwell <richard.caldwell@mhs.oklaosf.state.ok.us> writes:
>From: Richard Caldwell <richard.caldwell@mhs.oklaosf.state.ok.us>
>Subject: Re: Stapp, PK & Physics Today
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 11:14:47 PDT


>In article <41cq12$sar@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>, <juola@suod.cs.colorado.edu> 
>writes:

>> Richard Caldwell  <richard.caldwell@mhs.oklaosf.state.ok.us> wrote:

>> >Fine.  I have a bucket of marbles.  I will reach in a pull out exactly 2 
>> >marbles.  You reach in a pull out exactly Pi marbles.  Let's see how exact 
>you 
>> >can be with that one ;-)
>> 
>> Neat trick.  Now, without using any extra marbles, pull out and hand me
>> -3 marbles.  As soon as you do that, I'll see what I can do with pi.

>So, you give up on my challenge and answer it by stating an equally impossible 
>one.  I agree that I, nor you, can pull -3 marbles from the bucket.  That just 
>means that -3 is another abstract mathematical concept, like Pi.

Nope. To "pull -3 marbles from the bucket", you add 3 marbles to the bucket. 
;-)

<snip>

>Richard



Bob C.

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