From: Yash (yashk2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 01:41:59 MST
You haven't followed the original thread which was about how to compress a
maximum amount of information in a natural language.
It's not solely about memorising decimal places although this could be one
of the application.
I raised a few personal ideas about why this is interesting to me. I won't
repeat them here - they're in the archives so you can check them if you're
interested.
But if you are not interested, please do not distort what I was saying, ok?
I am not into letting things stagnate, I'd rather consciously make things
evolve faster.
Yash.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Bill Roh
Thanks Michele - finally someone on the same page (almost blank though
it is) as myself.
Not only do I have a hard time understanding the need to remember such
numbers, I have a harder time understanding why someone would even want
a language such as Yash is suggesting. No offense intended to Yash. But
I always have looked at the spoken language mostly as a vehicle for and
of the expansion of culture. It seems to me to be in our best interest
to let language develop at it's own rate in response to the needs of a
culture.
Of course if Yashs interest is only academic, then, well, knock yourself
out.
Bill
Michele Wiegand wrote:
>
> I don't see the value of memorizing large numbers. When was the
> last time you had to recall Pi to 32 places from memory?
>
> Michele
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