PBM design and formulae - getting hotter From: bc@lnec.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 09:13:51 +0000 saschreu@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA) wrote: >I have to object against this: A monkey will hit the ball in a random >direction. From Physics one can conclude that the ball will travel >in an almost straight line, and curve downwards. Now supose somebody >with this knowledge plays against a monkey. The monkey will loose, >because halve of the time, it won't hit the ball in the direction >of the net! > >Now our physist (P) will play against an average tennis player (T). >P will have a better chance against T than the monkey has, because >P knows how to hit the ball. So knowing the rules gives some compensation >for the lack of experience. > >And of course, no one is able to calculate it on paper, but everyone >can predict where the ball will land. And that is the same as calculating >it. Heh heh. If this were entirely true, Albert Einstein and Max Planck would the best tennis players in the world... :-) - Luis Sequeira _________________________________________________________________________ / / Computer scientists do it byte by byte. _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ We don't ask for miracles to get the job _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ done, we RELY upon them! _/ _/ _/ _/ If the job still isn't done, we'll stick _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ with Emacs instead... bc@lnec.pt Luis Miguel Sequeira Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil Phone 351-1-8482131 Ext. 2752 Centro Informatica/Grupo Sistemas Centrais "Don't call me, I'll call you" Av. Brasil, 101 - 1700 Lisboa, Portugal / _________________________________________________________________________/ Up