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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
Remember folks, if you see something say something!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @07:48AM
magic only works when it is scratched out in the Devil's tongue - Arabic
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a population of superstitious, uneducated [USAian] fools
This might be a good point to mention that, for a bunch of centuries, the Catholic Church was in charge of everything in Europe.[1]
When they wrote, they did that in Latin--specifically so the masses wouldn't understand what was going on without the priesthood to decode it.
...and anything that deviated from Divine Writ, got burned.
If it wasn't for the Arabs, all scientific and mathematical knowledge might have been lost.
[1] ...and when Europeans (the most zealous of the bunch, of course) invaded the Western Hemisphere, they brought their silly superstitions with them.
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