ATDTDA (7): 201-203 decoding

[John BAILEY]

http://tinyurl.com/ytqwk8

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of MalignD at aol.com
Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 12:23 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: ATDTDA (7): 201-203 decoding


<< seven-eighths - Pynchon has a thing for math, and as a math teacher
I'll tell you that a good understanding of ratio and proportion is  one
essential foundation for all of the fancier stuff -- so it's  delightful
to see him using a more unusual fraction (than say half,  or two-thirds)
here. These power of negative two divisions are  characteristics of our
rulers: multiples of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16,  1/32, 1/64, because in
construction it is often necessary to divide  things in half "on the
fly" -- and an easy way to do this if you have  an odd numerator is to
double the denominator. >>

Just a question:  has it been like this the entire group reading?




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