[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/14/2023 10:24 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> Why would a pre-med biology major care about transcendental numbers?
> 
>> They'll care when they get to Organic Chem and have to deal with lots of
>> sqrt(2) and sqrt(3) stuff.
> 
>     I never took organic or physical chemistry, so I don't know why/where
> such square roots might appear (especially in organic chem), but...
> 
>     A calculator can do square roots whether or not the operator knows
> whether the result is transcendental.

As I said then I have some expectations to the educational system.

That includes having expectations that someone with a STEM degree
can more than just use a calculator - that the person actually
understand the background for the math.

Calculus, linear algebra, number theory, probability theory etc..

Arne