Comments on: Indie math?

By: Farley

Farley — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:29:14 +0000

There is an almost in math. It is the sign for “approximately equal to” which is a tilde over the top of a line.

But that wouldn’t be necessary in this case since there are hard numbers. This is like the Tuscaloosa News reporter who wrote that “about 128 students graduated from Shelton State Community College”. Either there were 128 or there was a different number…no “about”. Very sloppy reporting.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:53:32 +0000

At least they didn’t use the most over used word in band bio history, ECLECTIC.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:02:10 +0000

Fikshun writes:

Integral math often breaks down with respect to bands and their necessarily transient identities.

The obvious question then: Were they once the Stratford Five and when they lost a member forgot to edit their entire entry?

More disturbing — boy, is that a Waspy-sounding name. (I think of the Stratfords in England and Connecticut.)

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:38:21 +0000

I’m no math major, but even I can see there’s something wrong with that calculation.

I do a simple comparison with our band – Backyard Tea – two of our members were from Eden, NC (Mike, me) – two of our members were from Danville, VA – Tony, Steve.

Using my vast knowledge of percentages from Mrs. Davis’s class, I can determine that 50% of us were from Eden, 50% from Danville.

Notice there’s no “almost.” As one of my high school math teachers, Coach Gregg, told me when I tried to suggest some ambiguity in a word problem in algebra class, “Booth, there’s no ‘almost’ in math!”

These whippersnappers need a math class with Coach Gregg.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:44:22 +0000

Fiction 8 features three members and is based in Denver and San Diego. However, half its members hail from Parker.

Something like that?

By: fikshun

fikshun — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:17:32 +0000

Have you reviewed the band’s background? Integral math often breaks down with respect to bands and their necessarily transient identities. If someone asked me where I’m from, it’d take a while to answer. But yeah, I’m probably giving the writer too much credit.

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:42:49 +0000

Nice. I’d have no complaints if it had been a quintet – “almost half” would then be 2, or 40%, and that’s OK. But this is just an exercise in bad rhetoric. Gack.