Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:52:19 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:01:45 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>

   But yea, the universe rarely cooperates with 'logical'
   systems humans might try to devise. Remember the old Greeks and
   their obsession with 'perfect' circular motion in the cosmos ? The
   cosmos was supposed to be 'divine', and therefore only 'perfect'
   geometry would be seen.

>
The universe laughs as humans invent arbitrary systems to explain it,
and then pride themselves on how consistent their inventions are.

 
Irrational numbers must drive those people nuts.

Then there are imaginary numbers. When Descartes coined the term he didn't
mean it in a good way.