"Len Over 21" wrote:

Heh, I have to admit that, in undergraduate classes
on Calculus I, II, and III, my grades were A, B, and
barely C, respectively. A problem with night classes
and working all day yet still trying to maintain contact
with other people. :-)


I never got an "A" in math. I did get an "F" once and had to take the
class over. However, the remainder of my math grades were "B" and "C," and I
was darn thrilled to get that "B" occasionally. I did just fine in all my
other classes.


(snip) Having to know morse code for a hobby activity
involving radio regulation by licensing is much more
PRIMITIVE than sitting down and doing a series equation
to obtain a logarithm or other transcendental numeric value.

No doubt the ardent Credentialists in here will come up
with some kind of BS about "needing degrees" to
understand it all. :-)


You won't get any argument from me. I probably wouldn't touch most math
today without a calculator (and most others wouldn't either). And code is a
primitive way of communicating. If that's one's cup of tea, there's
absolutely nothing wrong with that. But it is fairly absurd to continue to
require it of everyone else.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/