TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up

[Joe Allonby]

I LIKE trigonometry.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Ian Livingston sez:
>
> Algebra just makes no sense. I stand with Laurie Anderson on the principle
> that x=x, not y base 8 times z to the minus fourth power. Efforts to
> crystallize experience, which is fluid and non-repeating, are purely
> mystical and have little real meaning. The results of "progress" based on
> changing reality into something else have been, well, catastrophic, to
> euphemize the result…
>
>
>
> This sounds like engineers I’ve heard fuming about their frustrations in
> English class:  “What was all that ‘symbolism’ crap about? Why can’t writers
> just say what they MEAN instead of going on about albatrosses and  white
> elephants?”