Nicked from another ng. How teaching maths changes

[Bill Wright]

It's been censored. The last bit was about how the Muslims had taken over the UK.

Bill

[harryagain]

[Adrian]

? seems to work just fine.

[Brian Gaff]

You forgot to allow for quantative easing, soory devaluation of the currency.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

I saw nothing. the only way to get anything else through is to use a binary group.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Total gibberish, with paragraph signs not signes superscript flags etc.

Brian

[David]

Now I can see something other than "?" Pan also quotes the post from right to left.

I assume that the "Codepage", "TrueType" etc. indicate an almost correct rendition.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Hmm. SOME of the farsi characters actually got through to you.

I guess your default codepage is not UTF8...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yep your machine understood the right code page. Its actually an advert fir a farsi font I think, and the truetype and codepage are english insertions in the original text.

So usenet WILL do odd character sets if the user agents play nice,.

No, correct 100% renditon. Those are in english in the original

[Johny B Good]

I went through the process on my desk calculator to check. I thought I might have misremembered when the result was _only_ 120 :-)

I rather think he was checking whether _others_ were "aritmetically sub normal"[1], factorial expressions are very rarely used IRL. :-)

[1] or more likely just checking others memory of this more arcane mathematical expression.

[Tim Streater]

Try 1000000!

That is large enough to finish with some 500,000 zeroes.

(That was a New Scientist puzzle Q a few years ago).

[Cursitor Doom]

Exactly. I was hoping some pattern would emerge as to the age range of those respondents who did and didn't recognise the symbol as some sort of informal indication that standards have indeed fallen over the decades. But there have not been enough respondents to form a Large enough 'n' sample study.

[Tim Lamb]

Oh!

You can put me down as not recognising the symbol. Might have been one of the other examining bodies at *O* level. I did Cambridge as it was reckoned to be easier than Oxford. County Grammar 1959. *A* level was considered to be beyond my reach:-)

Also not remembered from 4 years ordinary and higher national certificate electrical engineering.

[whisky-dave]

the largest (number) my old calculator from the early 80s could do was 69! took about 4 seconds I think.