From xod@bway.net Fri Aug 13 14:49:31 1999 X-Digest-Num: 210 Message-ID: <44114.210.1119.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:49:31 -0400 (EDT) From: xod Subject: Re: lei skami tanru pe la ma'a X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1119 On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 BestATN@aol.com wrote: > From: BestATN@aol.com > > In a message dated 8/13/1999 4:07:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, xod@bway.net > writes: > > > Data: 5 > > Information, data in context: "5 is the square root of 25" > > Knowledge, info in context: the skill of finding square roots > > > So, continuing the pattern, what would knowledge in context be? > And '(knowledge in context) in context'? > > Similarly, and completely off-topic, > distance m > velocity: m/s > acceleration m/(s^2) > jerk m/(s^3) > > So what would a change in jerk be? And so on? After a while, numbers must be used with these things. Hence, a change in jerk is simply d^4 x/dt^4 ----- ...about one pound of coal to create, package, store, and move two megabytes of data.