September 2025

So when does “close enough for government work!” become a viable mathematical concept?

Every rational proper fraction has an eventually repeating decimal (which may terminate in zeros as a special case). So do I have two proper fractions? The first involves n…Read more

Quark Soup Recipes

That’s pretty much the party line.  Such statements presume a temperature (and time) when subatomic particle creation took place.  But the process is described in reverse order as if…Read more