Re: lei skami tanru pe la ma'a

[xod <xod@bway.net>]

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


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