Rick Tarara correctly laments innumeracy. For several years a colleague and I have tried to have a little fun with the annual federal budget, in part because most people (not just our students) seem to have no grasp of numbers or scale.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
-- Charles Darwin
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Dr. George Spagna
Physics Department
Randolph-Macon College
P.O. Box 5005
Ashland, VA 23005-5505