Scientific Conversions

[Joel S. Berson]

Isn't one of these a miscalculation?  4 nickels, or 20 cents, is one
paradigm (one pair of dimes), not 2.  (So 8 nickels is correctly 2 paradigms.)


At 6/5/2011 04:26 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>A few others collected along the way:
>...
>4 nickels = 2 paradigms
>8 nickels = 2 paradigms

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