Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Is there any other field of endeavor where a phrase like
> """
> Like all of my examples it's one of those super-simple examples; small 
> enough to be unreal, but hopefully enough for you to visualize what's going 
> on without falling into the bog of a real example.
> """
> is common?  Where people teach principles with overly-simplified and 
> unrealistic bits because doing it for real is too obscure?

  How about math? When was the last time you were in a math class where
they discussed a *real-world* example, rather than a simplified artificial
example?

  I think this goes all the way from adding apples to calculating fourier
transforms.

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                                                          - Warp

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