Hello August,

Friday August 13 2021 22:02, you wrote to Gamgee:

 AA> Would you be averse to demonstrate that cursive can have
 AA> application in improving speed of writing?

I know I can write faster in cursive since I don't have to take my pen off the
paper as often.  I also write cursive with a fountain pen which glides smoother
over the paper than a ballpoint pen and that helps!  My favorite fountain pen is
a fine-nib Lamy Safari followed by a fine-nib Pilot Metropolitan.  The Safari's
German "fine" is much bolder than the Pilot's Japanese "fine".  Lamy does make
an extra-fine nibbed Lamy Safari which I want to try.

 AA> Many of the curriculum books are popular since the covid thing
 AA> forced people to teach or study at home.  I recently brought in
 AA> a Gr 8 Math curriculm for a customer. Looking through that a
 AA> lot of the stuff about cartesian coordiates, fractions,
 AA> calculating volumes etc.. all looked quite familiar. Except for
 AA> calculating volumes, not much of that other stuff seemed to
 AA> have any application later in my life.   But I personally
 AA> enjoyed the math challenges.

I do use math in amateur radio quite often, whether it's designing antennas or
figuring out the best bearing to turn my antenna to so I can make an
international contact.  But besides using arithmetic when going grocery shopping
or doubling a recipe, nope, no math.

-- Sean

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