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Old 03-July-2009, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
What mathematics do you think I would need to do? Here, I'll measure
the period of a pendulum... Just a moment... about 1-3/4 seconds for my
little Swiss Army knife hanging on a thread. What math do you think I
used to get that result?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
You've counted, and operated on, rational numbers.
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