"rossum" <rossum48@coldmail.com> wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:30:09 -0800 (PST), JSH <jstevh@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Jan 31, 1:48 am, rossum <rossu...@coldmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:50:02 -0800 (PST), JSH <jst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Sorry I get a bit maudlin and over the top when I realize that there
was this simple thing that somehow escaped everyone including myself
for so long and part of me reacts very badly.
It might be wise to wait an hour or two before posting what you have
written. Write it off-line and save it. Go and do something else for
a couple of hours. Then come back to it and check it over to see if
there are any mistakes that need correcting or if you really should
post it at all. That will avoid many of those "whoops!" posts where
you have to correct errors in your previous posts.
rossum
But why?
The "whoops" posts show that you are posting stuff that has been
insufficiently checked. If you are going to post something then it is
far better to be very sure that it is 100% correct, with no errors,
typos, mistakes, omissions and so forth. You are aware that you have
an uphill struggle to get your ideas across. Posting mistakes just
provides ammunition for those who want to criticise you.
The more carefully you check stuff before you post the less ammunition
they will have.
I'm not flabbergasted by the mistakes but by the success.
The chase is so consuming, but the finish is so...flat.
You may be chasing a Snark, but you need to be sure that what you have
found is not a Boojum.
rossum
I am sure next time JSH will throughly check his math, every step, even
using "pure" math if he has too.
He feels the great weight of being wrong on a few things, I am postive as
the sqrt(-4) he will do it right the next time.
"The stairway to Heaven is built one step at a time." - H. Gague, Hawaii
(1834)
"The shushly slide into hysterical confuzeanism is by not knowing your
subject" - B. Herrimuim (1887)
"May one who chums the water be injested by the swiming bottomless pit
which has large teeth" - Alfred G. (1702)
___JSH
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