Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
I hate to be pedantic (okay, I don't really), but wouldn't the Tablets
of Stone have been written in a Hebrew script,
No. They were not. Before the advent of Mime, that came with the Tower of
Babel, all was was ASCII.
Also, I do not think you could accurately represent the Principia without
some of the mathematical symbols available in Unicode. I mean, it's hard to
do a� + b� = c�,
If Pythogorous could get along with ASCII so could Netwton:
The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs of a right triangle
equals the area of the square on its hypotenuse
Newton did not know about limits. He was too smart to need them. Lesser genius
like Bolzano -> Cauchy invented them.
Norman Shapiro
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