I was looking further at Brian McLaren's iterated absolute log function and noticed that the value 2.50618 generates very nearly a fixed point. The log of this number is.39901298 and this value remains constant throughout the iterations until the errors accumulate. A more exact value may be determined by solving the equation X+log(X)=0. The number x 1200 is 478.815576 (29/22). By using the natural log rather than the base-10 log, one gets .56714329 which times 1200 is 680.5719 (37/25). One may start with 1.763223 also.
--John
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> Maybe we could convince him to get a phone but leave it hooked up to a > modem permanently...and thus accept e-mail but no voice-mail...
Yeah, I tried that. He complained that E-mail would consume too much of his time - as if E-mail were any different from TV or time spent with friends in that regard. He doesn't seem to realize that E-mail is something that must, but can, be balanced along with everything else in our lives.
He also thinks that answering machines (by which I mean leaving messages on one) are "an instrument of the devil" (direct quote spoken fecetiously).
I personally would prefer that John and the rest of us refuse to post his messages until he's ready to enter the modern world. The attitude partly comes from it being so difficult to collaborate with him on the Ivor Darreg Memorial Fund's CD projects because of that.
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I said: > ... refuse to post his > messages until he's ready to enter the modern world. The attitude partly > comes from it being so difficult to collaborate with him on the Ivor Darreg > Memorial Fund's CD projects because of that.
Oooop. Typo there: "The attitude..." should read "That attitude...". As in "That sort of attitude on my part...". He doesn't seem to grasp how difficult not being able to call him makes a collaborative project.
Sorry, I'm not trying to air dirty laundry, it just gets frustrating, and I wouldn't mind if others who might have felt this frustration, would prod at him too.
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With all of Brian's finger-pointing and name-calling, much of which is warranted, it is amusing that he never fails to prove himself the biggest pseudoscientist of them all. Observe his "proof" that there are no live acoustic music performances anymore. Since I have performed in and attended more than a few of these, and the total quantity of music contained therein is of the same order of magnitude as the recorded music I own, I must conclude that his reality is different from my own. Nothing new here. Moreover, I would be quite happy in a world where live acoustic music was the only music we had. Technology need not be limited to electronic means.
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