On 5/12/2010 2:26 PM, Art Unwin wrote:
the element resonance. I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation
moved away from the present
algerithms and rely purely on number crunching to obtain systems in
equilibrium. I personaly believe

WTF? Number crunching. Algorithms. Treated as separable.

What an astonishing idea.

Hi Tom,

It would have been called "coin flipping" by the Indus valley people
of Mehrgarh if someone had had the foresight to invent pockets that
could hold a dime. Unfortunately, it would be another 6000 years
before the first coins were struck. Instead, they flipped mud tablets
performing the world's first "binary search:" Is this the solution?

They solved a lot of the state-of-the-art electromagnetics problems
back then within two to three tosses. Few disputed their claims (mud
is a form of ground) or challenged their accuracies of -50% to +100%
for water conductivity (will the Indus overflow this season? - an
equilibrium problem of the first order).

It would be that same 6000 years later before algerithms would advance
to the point where Archimedes could model equilibrium of water (note
its pre-eminence again) in a bath tub. This improved accuracies to
-50% to +100% once again (the ancient work had been lost in a flood of
the Indus and only recently un-earthed).

Little might have changed since, except that the fluorescence of
newsgroup gurus have enlightened modern civilization with advances in
accuracies now verging on ±6dB where the pre-eminence of water has
been overthrown in favor of photon-stream control. The binary search
that was formerly the cornerstone of modeling has been replaced with
the unary declaration that is self-proven by having been uttered (or
posted to a group that has a vague resemblance to the topic). Hence,
the inaccuracies of coins has been wholly removed to yield perfect
understanding (within ±6dB, of course).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC