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Old 23-08-2015, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by pfitzgerald View Post
Ordinarily I ignore and wouldn't deign to reply to comments like the OPers final comment:

"Perhaps a sad reflection on the teaching of Science/Math in our schools"

However, not this time. ............

Paul
Oh dear...touched a raw nerve did I?

That said, my comment was not intended to reflect on the professionalism or otherwise of Math/Science teachers.

I'd strongly suggest in a Country that gives accolades and serious remuneration to our "sports heroes" yet pays our Doc's and Post Doc's peanuts for working on, say troublesome radio reflections (and inventing W-Fi) or a cure for cancer, then we've got some work to do.

Maybe several orders of magnitude more