I was thinking about this yesterday in a different context, and, well, one of the handy things about numbers is that they let you distinguish between different degrees of something. As a really completely arbitrary example, one would be perfectly correct to say that Rush Limbaugh is a big fuckwit, and also perfectly correct to say that Jerry Falwell is a big fuckwit. However, when you can quantify it as Limbaugh: 37.4 Standard Fuckwit Units and Falwell: 859 SFU, you can see that they aren't the same, and figure out which one you would shoot first if you had only one bullet.
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branchandroot
This is why we have mathematics
Date: 2001-09-19 09:06 am (UTC)Okay, no more babble from me.
--Trip