What's All This Brouhaha? » Calculus https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com miscellaneous musings and random rantings Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 It’s unfortunate that I know some calculus https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2009/02/18/its-unfortunate-that-i-know-some-calculus/ https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2009/02/18/its-unfortunate-that-i-know-some-calculus/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:51:55 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=743 Continue reading →]]> I’ve now got a small stream of revenue coming in, and if I didn’t know some calculus, I could prove that it is sufficient for all my needs:

I received some money yesterday.  It will take me a finite non-zero amount of time to spend it.  By the time I have spent it, some more money will have arrived.  And by the time I spend that, even more will arrive…

However, since I do know some calculus, that scheme won’t work for me.  I guess I’ll just have to be a Zenophobe.

As my friend Richard pointed out, “A man’s got to know his Limits.”

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