Daily Archives: August 15, 2004

What terms did you get on that phone?

Man. I had no idea that people still leased telephones. Twenty years after the government’s breakup of the Bell monopoly, nearly 1 million consumers still lease their telephones from an affiliate of AT&T, paying anywhere from $4.45 a month for … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Bidness | 6 Comments

Vedic, schmedic

Gary Farber points to this Wired article about something called “Vedic math” – what that is, they never really tell us – which has some practical application if you’re interested in quickly solving some arithmetic problems. Since the example given … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Technology, science, and math | 4 Comments