Scientific Conversions

[victor steinbok]

Indeed, I missed that one. Most copies do suggest 8, but the first one I saw
was 4, which is what I copied and failed to correct.

There are several others where I did make a choice.

VS-)

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> 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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