Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:02:55 -0500 From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Radius typo... (Was Re: PLC: silenced protest) At 02:16 AM 11/10/97 -0500, you (Pat Sloane) wrote: >In a message dated 97-11-09 23:50:28 EST, James Westfall writes: >> The hubris of (male) undergrads is occasionally dizzying. > >a phenomenon I have often noticed. Maybe both sexes though. > [For radius read circumference -- sorry, tired Monday morning.] The bigger the circle the bigger the radius -- the circle being what you know about, and the radius or edge being what you know you don't know about. I told my favorite undergraduate teacher I wanted to have read everything there was to read by the time I was thirty. In retrospect, I realize that she was gracious enough to make a successful effort not to giggle. Gregory {Greg} Downing, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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