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Re: apples and oranges

At 11:58 10/27/98 -0500, Joseph Bellina wrote:
...
Interestly, in Newton's time, it was unexceptable to do such a
calculation, that is multiply or divide two quantities that had different
units. ...

One remarks how geometrical was Principia, how little algebraic.

(I found your neologism fascinating btw - its own inverse, in fact)
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK