Sir Henry Phelps Brown _ he was knighted for his various services to the crown _ put it this way in a memorable presidential address to the Royal Economic Society in 1972 " It has long been claimed that an economist is not trained who is not numerate; but neither is he trained if he is not historiate ."
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Nowadays, we have been in a position to be able to numerate many examples of the industrial applications of induction plasma technology, such as, powder spheroidisation, nanosized powders synthesis, induction plasma spraying, waste treatments, etc ., However, the most impressive success of induction plasma technology is doubtless in the fields of spheroidisation and nano-materials synthesis.
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After another two years he could be promoted to " Principalis ", with a double salary, in charge of delivering messages ( " Tesserarius " ) or as an assistant centurion ( " Optio " ) or standard bearer ( " Signifer " ) at the corps of the century; or, if literate and numerate capable, he could join the administrative staff of the prefect.
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Article 13.1 . 2 of the Code, with its " Requirements " for names published after 1930, mandates that such names " be accompanied by a bibliographic reference to such a published statement, even if the statement is contained in a work published before 1758, or in one that is not consistently binomial, or in one that has been suppressed by the Commission . " Under this provision, Hekstra, numerating reference in his formal published report to the description in his thesis, would be construed as the authority.
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He has also written on other subjects often " combining disparate disciplines ", such as the mathematical and philosophical basis of humor in " Mathematics and Humor " and " I Think, Therefore I Laugh ", the stock market in " A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market ", quantitative aspects of narrative in " Once Upon a Number ", the arguments for God in " Irreligion ", and most recently " bringing mathematics to bear on . . . biography " in " A Numerate Life ".
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You don't have to be able to do trig, or simultaneous equations, or quadratics ( although getting some marks on these questions will give you some slack on the others ), but you do have to display a basic competence with a variety of areas of maths to get a C . That's why, for all your scathing, so many people fail to achieve it, and work so hard to do so : so they can demonstrate to an employer ( who will never need them to find the angle in a right-angled triangle, or solve simultaneous or quadratic equations ) that they are numerate, have some ability to manipulate things in their head, and can use measurements.
