Re: Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic?

Subject: Re: Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic?
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:00:53 -0500

In our previous episode at 09:18 AM 8/17/01, John Fleming wrote:

From: "Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>
Anyone else remember
that Asimov
> story where arithmetics had been wholly forgotten until some genius
clerk
> rediscovered it?

I used to read a lot of Asimov, and yes, the story does vaguely ring a
bell.

The story is "The Feeling of Power." Multiply collected and anthologized:
http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/pwork.cgi?38f185

--
Beth Friedman / bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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--Steve Goodman


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References:
RE: Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic?: From: Jane Carnall
Re: Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic?: From: John Fleming

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