Goodbye Non-Revenue Sports

[Katie 1,076]

1 hour ago, GockeS said:

now if you want to say they should stop charging students fees for sports... i might agree with that.

sports are just as educational as school. maybe more so.

tax money for some of that in my book is not a problem.

i can see much more wasteful spending.

 

I have a question for anyone who really wants to know what the problem with govt spending is.

on a say 4 inch line, put million at one end and trillion at the other.

Now, tell me, w/o google, where billion goes.

 

The problem with government spending is that a trillion is a lot more than a billion? I’m officially no longer reading your posts.

Edited December 10, 2020 by Katie

[GockeS 591]

what's different? 

[rpbobcat 56]

27 minutes ago, Plasmodium said:

I was only thinking of order, +1 for scale!  Did you wrestle in college?    Was it fun?

Yes, I wrestled ,D1.

I really enjoyed it.

But "fun" is not a word I would use to describe it.

 

[Janderson133 21]

22 hours ago, Katie said:

I didn't realize this message board was full of communists.

 

[RichB 227]

13 hours ago, rpbobcat said:

If I recall my high school math correctly ,a billion is 1000 million,a trillion is 1000 billion.

That would put 1 billion close to the 1 million  point.

 

A scale like that has to be logarithmic, so right in the middle. No one should graduate HS without being able to use a slide rule. 

[rpbobcat 56]

8 hours ago, RichB said:

A scale like that has to be logarithmic, so right in the middle. No one should graduate HS without being able to use a slide rule. 

I'm an engineer.

You can plot 1M ,1B and 1T on a "regular" (linear) scale.

But I agree,it makes more sense,given the exponents,to treat the question as logarithmic.

After I made my post, I actually dug out some old log paper and plotted it.

(As my wife says,"engineers are not like the other children".)

As far as a slide rule,if calculators hadn't become readily available my sophomore 

year of college,I don't know if I would have made it through engineering.

I could never get comfortable using a slide rule.

I teach a class at FDU on the history of land surveying.

One of the things I bring to class is my dad's old K&E Log-Log Slide Rule.

The look on students' faces,when they find out this is how things like the GW bridge were designed,

is priceless.

 

 

Edited December 11, 2020 by rpbobcat

[gimpeltf 2,121]

6 minutes ago, rpbobcat said:

I teach a class at FDU on the history of land surveying.

Fairly Ridiculous? (My sister went there)