"I listened to a conversation between two girls, and one was explaining that if you want to make a straight line, you see, you go over a certain number to the right for each row you go up, that is, if you go over each time the same amount when you go up a row, you make a straight line. A deep principle of analytic geometry! It went on. I was rather amazed. I didn't realize the female mind was capable of understanding analytic geometry."
Two clues:
1. You can see some of his lectures on youtube, and
2. I wish I had known him---he sounds like a lot of fun and I would have loved to spend a few nights barhopping with him!
More clues later, if needed!
Even worse (or better, as the case may be) his statement just prior to this was:
"...including lots of girls. I used to sit in the cafeteria with the students and eat and try to overhear their conversations and see if there was one intelligent word coming out."
He find out later the two girls were discussing how to knit a straight line!!
"Suppose you have another line coming in from the other side, and you want to figure out where they are going to intersect. Suppose on one line you go over two to the right for every one you go up, and the other line goes over three to the right for every one that it goes up, and they start twenty steps apart."
-Richard Feynman
just_sayin' wrote:
"Suppose you have another line coming in from the other side, and you want to figure out where they are going to intersect. Suppose on one line you go over two to the right for every one you go up, and the other line goes over three to the right for every one that it goes up, and they start twenty steps apart."
-Richard Feynman
Oh, darn. I thought I could get a really good thread going on this!!
I still wish I could have gone out with this bongo playing scientist!
just_sayin' wrote:
"Suppose you have another line coming in from the other side, and you want to figure out where they are going to intersect. Suppose on one line you go over two to the right for every one you go up, and the other line goes over three to the right for every one that it goes up, and they start twenty steps apart."
-Richard Feynman
And now every time I graph, I have a great laugh when I remember what he said. Over two, Up three, Up Yours, Feynman!
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