"Michael" == Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> writes:
Michael> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Joshua Hutchinson wrote: >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hart" >>> <hart@pglaf.org> >> >>> I suppose you are stressing the difference between >>> mathematicians and economists and MBA's, without trying to be >>> obvious about it, but that difference is all to obvious to >>> everyone else, and that a "growth curve" that is "flat" is not >>> a "curve." >>> >> Not only are you the only one that keeps trying to say a >> "growth curve" that is "flat" is not a "curve" ... others have >> come out (including myself) to say that a growth curve can be >> almost any shape. Michael> Please consult a real mathematics professor. >> A growth curve can be flat, negative, or a sin wave ... and it >> is still a "growth curve". Michael> Please consult a real mathematics professor. Dear Michael, I am a mathematics professor, and I have abstained to plug in this stupid discussion, but there is no doubt that Joshua is right, and you are completely wrong. No mathematician can doubt that a straight line is a curve. And that zero is a number. Sorry. Carlo