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To: JohnnyZ
Well, since there are all sorts of ways that you can get at =4, that this guy found one way to use these stones doing base 40 doesn't mean that it is the original way.

I'd say that the person who wrote the article gave a slant that made the professor sound like an ass - if he is an ass or not in real life is a different issue.

Sometimes people with degrees make me see red, maybe I've got an inferiority complex that needs therapy.
51 posted on 02/03/2004 8:56:15 AM PST by NotQuiteCricket
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To: NotQuiteCricket
I'd say that the person who wrote the article gave a slant that made the professor sound like an ass - if he is an ass or not in real life is a different issue.

He's been at Hahvahd for . . . 2 years? now, so maybe they're rubbing off on him. Who knows?

Somehow, some way, the Inca calculated astronomical data to make calendars and had a fair understanding of ratios. There are also hints that they could handle factoring and large prime numbers.

Now I feel like going back and looking at that stuff. I just wish I had a real library near me . . . I'm not too confident in UNC-Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public!

55 posted on 02/03/2004 9:05:55 AM PST by JohnnyZ
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