So yes, I numbered the last update wrong. Numbers are always tricky. As a younger man, I read John Allen Paulos’s Innumeracy, Mathematical Illiteracy, and its Consequences. What I remember from it is that if we were as lenient with our understanding of words as we are with our knowledge of numbers, I would have written this update in a mix of Dutch, Spanish, and gibberish. And have gotten away with it.
#99 Innumeracy
#99 Innumeracy
#99 Innumeracy
So yes, I numbered the last update wrong. Numbers are always tricky. As a younger man, I read John Allen Paulos’s Innumeracy, Mathematical Illiteracy, and its Consequences. What I remember from it is that if we were as lenient with our understanding of words as we are with our knowledge of numbers, I would have written this update in a mix of Dutch, Spanish, and gibberish. And have gotten away with it.