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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3284#msg-3284</link>
      <author>Rob</author>
      <description><![CDATA[As Ooktavia says,  maths is a beautiful subject. See G.H.Hardy's
&quot;Mathematician's Apology&quot;

I can appreciate the elegance of a maths proof as a work of art.
(Certainly much better than Tracy Emin's &quot;Bed&quot;, for example.)

Going way back, there's nothing wrong with being a mathematician.
Just it tends to be a conversation killer. Either

'I can't do maths' / 'I never liked maths at school'

or worse, you end up in a long conversation about accountancy or
incredibly dull statistics.

Maths is much cooler than that.

I could tell you why the Flixborough disaster was so bad (and an
consequence of it being the BSE epidemic) or more recently
the King's Cross fire or even explain &quot;spontaneous&quot; combustion
which is anything but...

That's before I get onto any of the problems with fish stocks in the
North Sea.

Sorry. Waffling now. I'll get back to being flippant in another thread.
Much more fun !]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3199#msg-3199</link>
      <author>Ooktavia</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Maths is a beautiful and complex subject, and I have never understood any of it. 
I deny being.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:22:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3195#msg-3195</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Aha! I've found my niche. Cheers Jon.

At least no-one has confused it with Astrology in a while. One of my (ex)co-workers made that mistake. 'Well, it's an 'ology', innit? So it must be a science, it must be true'..

He wasn't kidding, unfortunately.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:17:44 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3194#msg-3194</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes, but if anybody is ever trying to find a book on cosmology using a PC, you are uniquely qualified to help them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:15:23 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3193#msg-3193</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[and, as usual, it's a conversation stopper.

So I decided to become a librarian instead. Boy did that make a difference. Not...

Then I moved into IT. At least it doesn't stop the conversation, but it inevitably moves it swiftly on to 'Ah, could you look at my computer? It's not working....']]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:05:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3151#msg-3151</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[especially at html, it would seem. Managed to turn italics on, but not off. ooops.

try this
astrophysicist]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:16:44 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3150#msg-3150</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ah, I was an astrophysicist, so doubly useless...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:15:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>fuzz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ah, well, the (only?) advantage of being a physicist is you're not expected to be able to spell, which fact may explain my choice of degree.  Also we have computers to do our counting for us :)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:15:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3146#msg-3146</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Wilfred the penguin is very proud of the fact that he can spell &quot;hic&quot;.  Actually, considering how drunk he is, he's probably quite justified. :-)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:12:54 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3143#msg-3143</link>
      <author>polly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Soon-to-be-ex-husband 1.1.1 was a physicist and he was pretty useless.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:11:43 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
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      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Having said that, I can spell 'physicist'. Don't know what one is, but I can spell it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:04:40 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3136#msg-3136</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[join the club ,,, if I have to count past ten people start saying &quot;Can you smell sweaty feet?&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:03:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3135#msg-3135</link>
      <author>All-American-Cutie</author>
      <description><![CDATA[suddenly feeling like a major peon]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:02:29 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3128#msg-3128</link>
      <author>fuzz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There's nothing wrong with being a mathmatician, just so long as you keep it in perspective and remember you're not as useful as a physisist.
*ducks*]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:46:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3113#msg-3113</link>
      <author>Rob Johnson</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That wasn't tricky at all. Simply trying to get as much money as possible
for allowing you to live in such palatial accommodation with, if I say so
myself, a very kindly and generous landlord. (I let you do the washing up,
decorate your room and everything !)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:41:22 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[your sums involving how much rent I had to pay certainly seemed tricky, it kept going up!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:30:36 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3111#msg-3111</link>
      <author>Rob Johnson</author>
      <description><![CDATA[As I think I've mentioned before I did a weighty tome 
&quot;The Mass Flux Response of Flames to Rapid Changes in Pressure&quot;

(How a diesel engine works - to you or I. I really won't bore you with
details.)

Adam: Alas, it's quality not quantity. I've certainly done a lot
of sums some of which were quite tricky but nothing earth shattering.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:28:50 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3109#msg-3109</link>
      <author>Adam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That's a serious amount of sums]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:22:50 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3108#msg-3108</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[wasn't one of those degrees in burning stuff?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:21:42 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3106#msg-3106</link>
      <author>Rob Johnson</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm afraid that's a difficult question as I'm not exactly sure.
(Not good for a mathematician, you'll agree !)

I think it's 3 - MA. MSc. PhD.

(It's a stupid Cambridge thing where they give you a Masters degree
for staying out of prison for 3 years. I think it replaces my BA so I
no longer have a Bachelors degree. You'll have to consult DeBrett's
or something for official stuff...)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:20:03 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3103#msg-3103</link>
      <author>Adam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;some maths degrees&quot; - how many exactly?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:14:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3102#msg-3102</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[or some degree of maths.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:11:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3101#msg-3101</link>
      <author>Rob</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If it helps clarify things, I have some maths degrees.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:11:22 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3099#msg-3099</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Klinsmann drinks espresso? Cool. A wired cat.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:33:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3098#msg-3098</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have a cat like that.  It's Minsky's infuriating little adopted ginger nephew Klinsmann.  I generally ask visitors to find out what he's doing and tell him to stop it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:09:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time.......</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3096#msg-3096</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I never know who he is and where he is at the same time, certainly. Or where he is and what he's doing, which is more worrying.

I've managed to confuse myself. I blame the double espresso followed by 3 cups of coffee since lunchtime. On a serious caffeine buzzzzzzz]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:59:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hang on.  First you said he was one but he'd deny it, now you're saying he's not one... is he or isn't he?  Or is he in some kind of quantum superposition?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:57:32 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3094#msg-3094</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[nothing in the slightest. Just like there's nothing wrong with being a physicist ( or an astrophysicist). Rob's just not one, that's all. Though he does do big sums, I've seen him.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:55:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[So what on earth is wrong with being a mathematician?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:54:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,2876,3092#msg-3092</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[told you. He'll now say something along the lines of being a fuel and energy person, so just burns stuff.]]></description>
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