Subject: bug report, or am I doing something wrong?
From: Miquel Cabanas
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:09:20 +0100
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 08:31 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Frank Palazzolo <frank.palazzolo at mcm1.com> wrote:
>
> > After all, using logarithms to the base 10 is really
> > just a consequence of humans having 10 fingers.
>
> ...
>
> As for the horse, the lack of toes doubtless accounts for
> their slow progress, mathematically speaking.
but they seem to be good on practical psychology, see
http://www.kbrhorse.net/tra/hans.html
and to be fair, there's at least one report of a "really smart horse"
in this science page,
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/1_6.html
(smarter than me, I took me a while to understand the joke, language
matters)
Miquel