ATDTDA (7): 201-203 decoding

[Ya Sam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

more Pynchonian, what with Pi, schrodinger's equation on the background, 
calculus and mayonnaise.

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>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
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>Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 12:23 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: ATDTDA (7): 201-203 decoding
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><< 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. >>
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>Just a question:  has it been like this the entire group reading?
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