Re: Online F77 information...

Richard Maine wrote:

(snip)

Reminds me of my experience in undergrad school. I was fortunate enough
to be way ahead of my class in math at the time. There were no end of
undergrad engineering classes in which this allowed me to briefly listen
to a description of the problems to be addressed, after which I
recognized that I knew how to solve problems like that, so I could skip
the next several weeks of class while everyone else plowed through doing
the problems the hard way because they didn't have the math background
to do it the easy way.

This reminds me of an economics class where the book had a long
description of the meaning of 'marginal'. The professor noted that
it meant to take the partial derivative and everyone understood
without a long explanation.

-- glen

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