mass delusions: america’s first paper “currency” - substitution of silver sixpences for these tokens by the city council, 1775: paper made ‘more acceptable’ when acceptable for school fees…
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Quotations Update 🔔: CG takes SJ’s offer of raspberries in September 2025 for raspberries in 2026.
SJ’s exchanged his excess raspberries this year so he can enjoy them next year instead. By contrast, CG wants raspberries now but is planning to have a surplus next year.
Quotations Update 🔔: CG takes SJ’s offer of raspberries in September 2025 for raspberries in 2026.
SJ’s exchanged his excess raspberries this year so he can enjoy them next year instead. By contrast, CG wants raspberries now but is planning to have a surplus next year.
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‘positive/negative number’ - ie bringing quantity into ‘positive/negative’ (and its extension i, j, k,…) - is a way to ‘induce direction’ into quantity for some ‘engineering/science’ purpose… but quantity doesn’t move in such positivist ways… something to think about.
'Madhava of Sangamagra' is the most important mathematician of modern times: he gave us infinite series expansions for trigonometric functions... which leads to our familiar 'Taylor series expansion'...
we understand ‘inch’ - but how do we get ‘one third of an inch’...? an ‘inch’ is three barley grains side-by-side lengthways, so ‘one third …’ is merely one barley grain.
there's more 'dimensionality' to 'inch' than 'centimetre' could understand...
@BrisAllotResist Allotments are a statutory right for all to access. They are a part of the fight for land for food growing that goes back centuries. If allotments aren’t accessible are they even allotments?
This is a far bigger question but it’s one we must address. 6/