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Prof. Smith, .002

amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 29 19:55:30 1988

``Just add that up on your fingers.  And if you have really small
  fingers, that's integration.''

``You can do it rationally, irrationally, any way you want.
  Just DON'T GET IT WRONG!!!''

``Now, while we were having that casual chat, you all integrated
  that, right?  [Class laughs.]  Come on, people who compulsively
  read cereal boxes must compulsively integrate total differentials
  when they see them.''

[After discharging a 20mF capacitor:]  ``There's a finiite amount of
  energy in there, as opposed to a battery.''

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