Topband: Inv L corner insulator
Jim Brown
jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Mon Sep 27 19:57:59 EDT 2021
On 9/27/2021 4:37 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> Place an engineer and mathematician on one goal line of a football
> field with a comely cheerleader on the other goal line. If you tell
> the engineer and mathematician the can go to her but can only go half
> the distance at a time, the mathematician will walk off the field
> saying "I can't get there". The engineer will walk toward the
> cheerleader saying "I can get close enough!"
I first heard that story in EE school in the early '60s as an
engineering student and math student at one end of a bar, the lovely
young thing at the other, and after each drink could move half the
distance between them. The engineering student got close enough for
practical purposes.
73, Jim K9YC
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