| Subject: | Re: Induction-Cooking Online Information Resource
| | Date: | Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:47:14 +0000 (UTC)
| | From: | spope33@speedymail.org (Steve Pope)
| | Newsgroups: | rec.food.equipment,rec.food.cooking,ba.food,uk.food+drink.misc,alt.cooking.chefs
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Owain <owain47125@stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote:
>Pete Fraser wrote:
>>>there's no branch of mathematics called arithmetic? (doing sums)
>> There is, but it's not referred to in common usage.
>> Everybody talks about "doing the math" when arithmetic is involved.
>
>So American schools don't teach "the 3 Rs"? (reading, riting and rithmetic)
>
>Owain
Mathematics is the queen of sciences, and artithmetic is
the queen of mathematics.
(Bertrand Russell?)
S.
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