In article ,
brian mitchell writes:
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| But, as a mathematician...
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| It may well be otherwise with mathematicians, but for most the soul
| makes its nest among the crevices of language rather than numbers.

It is, indeed, otherwise with mathematicians :-)

| After all, we used to be required to do that sort of conversion in
| our heads, and some of us still can. Not as fast as I used to be able
| to, but senility and ethanol may have something to do with that ....
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| The extraordinary uses some people put their heads to!
| All praise to ethanol, which is well known to lends wings to the flight
| of poetic imagination but apparently also halts the onrush of numbers
| :-)

I tend to favour the approach that one should never plan your future
until one has discussed the plans once drunk and once sober ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.