Math in recent emails
Sep. 29th, 2004 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magid"[...] the new baby, at birth, was 1.6 billion barn megaparsecs per hectare long, and had a mass of 44 thousand Joules squared per mega-electron-volt."1
" 3. For any point in the sukkah, draw two perpendicular lines through that point. For that point in the sukkah to be kosher, two of the four ends must intersect a kosher wall, and a third must intersect either a wall or a line drawn as an imaginary continuation of a real wall."2
And people ask when they'll ever use this stuff :-).
1 A birth announcement to the Tremont St. list.
2 Sukkah requirements (by the rabbi) to the Harvard Hillel orthodox minyan list, along with an offer to check out any sukkot.
" 3. For any point in the sukkah, draw two perpendicular lines through that point. For that point in the sukkah to be kosher, two of the four ends must intersect a kosher wall, and a third must intersect either a wall or a line drawn as an imaginary continuation of a real wall."2
And people ask when they'll ever use this stuff :-).
1 A birth announcement to the Tremont St. list.
2 Sukkah requirements (by the rabbi) to the Harvard Hillel orthodox minyan list, along with an offer to check out any sukkot.