21 Jun
2011
21 Jun
'11
2:32 p.m.
On 21 Jun 2011 at 14:03, Eric Smith wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
I was in an undergrad math class in the early 1980s,
and the students
kept pestering the instructor about whether they could use this, that,
or the other thing on the exam. The instructor finally said that they
could use anything that they could carry into the room. One guy
carried in a grad student.
I remember that Sam Conte would lug in a big Monroe(ISTR) adding
machine to the first session of his Numerical Analysis classes at
Purdue to demonstrate the idea of significance and error.
Isn't there a little project on the web that uses a SDHC and a small
microcontroller to render the entire contents of Wikipeida (sans
images) as a nice iPod-sized gizmo?
--Chuck