Katie 731 Report post Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GockeS 403 Report post Posted December 10, 2020 what's different? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpbobcat 53 Report post Posted December 10, 2020 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. 1 GockeS reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Janderson133 16 Report post Posted December 10, 2020 22 hours ago, Katie said: I didn't realize this message board was full of communists. 1 Yellow_Medal reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RichB 192 Report post Posted December 11, 2020 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpbobcat 53 Report post Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) 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 1 Yellow_Medal reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gimpeltf 1,529 Report post Posted December 11, 2020 6 minutes ago, rpbobcat said: I teach a class at FDU on the history of land surveying. Fairly Ridiculous? (My sister went there) 1 Yellow_Medal reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites