Comments on: Books You Should Read: The Perfectionists

By: Jehu

Jehu — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:29:15 +0000

In reply to RÖB. Why does this remind me of a certain HAL9000 unit?

By: Chris Lott

Chris Lott — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:38:46 +0000

Joshua, thanks a lot, man. My already tall (virtual) stack of unread books just increased by one. Maybe my 2023 I’ll be caught up.

By: Ry

Ry — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:58:39 +0000

In reply to Criatura. Up to 6 times if it's daylight savings, provided that they stopped at the right time. :)

By: nadanope

nadanope — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:27:47 +0000

I did read “The Perfectionists.” There is obviously a British lean to it but that isn’t a huge deal. This book is where I learned that Eli Whitneys interchangeable parts was a scam. There was a lot of things in the book that I already knew but the stories were fun. It was not written by an engineer and it shows but still a decent read.

The author also did “professor and the madman” about making the dictionary. I haven’t read that one because i saw the movie.

By: RÖB

RÖB — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:31:50 +0000

In reply to Ali Gator.

I don’t see the problem ???

Quote:

“The previous techniques may be applied to establish or to calibrate any chosen division of the circle, whether it be 13, 20, 160, or 1440 parts, The verification of the most accurate circle-dividing instruments relies ultimately on such elementary proofs, regardless of the expressed magnitude of error,”

Are you referring to the two commas used instead of full stops. I didn’t even see it to start with so it’s no surprise it was mistaken by OCR.

By: Ali Gator

Ali Gator — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:37:46 +0000

Perfectionist indeed! Look at that punctuation in the 3rd paragraph of page 208!

By: ljfkidd

ljfkidd — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:58:43 +0000

In reply to Jason Pyeron.

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