File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 524


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 



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