[CQ-Contest] Reflections on comments about open logs, right versus wrong, etc.

[K0HB]

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

I was attempting to cut the tension on this issue with a tongue-in-cheek
parody, but I see it's far too serious an issue to be the subject of humor.

CU in NAQP,

73, de Hans, K0HB
Just a boy and his fractured equations
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> [Original Message]
> From: Robert L. Shohet <kq2m at earthlink.net>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: 8/2/2008 1:49:59 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest]  Reflections on comments about open logs,right
versus wrong, etc.
>
> Hans,
>
> This proof is nonsense and does not work either
> symbolically or mathematically.
>
> You say that 3l = r = -w.  If that is true then
> 3l = -w .
>
> Then you say that l = r = -w.
>
> That would mean that 3l = l, which is mathematically
> impossible.
>
> You had asked to be proved that you are wrong, and
> now you have.
>
> This proof also does not work symbolically.  Left and right are
> directions not measurements.  Left and Right have no fixed distance
> so you can't assume that one is equal to the other since mathematical
> equations use values not ideologies.  But when you use the same
> mathematical symbol (r, l, -w) its values must remain constant
> within the same set of equations that you are solving for or you can't
> solve for them.
>
> On the real issue, I also agree with W5OV, but that is a different matter.
>
> Bob KQ2M
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