From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 08:40:11 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!xfer10.netnews.com!netnews.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:31:21 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94s8op$uer$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 26 16:31:21 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x51.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4562 Date: 2001-01-26T16:31:21+00:00 List-Id: In article <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, tom_swiftjr@my-deja.com wrote: > > Perhaps that's merely a reflection of the state of > advancement of mathematics > when you were a lad? No, just a reflection of relative importance. Note however that I had one mathematics class a day from the age of 4 to 13 (when I left England, and this would have continued for years). I fear the situation is not so fine here in the good old USA, where many high school students do not have to take four years of math :-( Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/