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> Additional information by Wayne Bishop, who actually reviewed this
> series, is posted at:
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> http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=6135571&tstart=0
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$112 with lousey context/time ratio.

When tutoring a student, I went to teach him how
to use the index, as the table of contexts was worthless
to find definition, formulas he didn't remember.

Thereupon was discovered a reference to the Blazers? The Blazers? A
basketball teams is a significant math text index entry. I could not
believe such inanity. So I look it up. Sure enough, the Blazers were
their in a problem that could have been any Tom, Dick and Harry team.
Now mind you, it was a Portland school and the Blazers are a Portland team
which explains perhaps why the increase of the noise to signal ratio.

Anyway I did meet with the Big Blazer start Bill Walton and his tiny wife
in a hot spring in Arizona where I was working. He was there soaking a
bad ankle for relief because he was stupid enough to not stop re-injuring
his bad ankle.

Now here's a real high school math problem involving the Blazers. Bill,
unable to avoid the temptation of another million, plays one more year for
a painful million, on an ankle he should have retired. The results of his
folly are permanent impairment of his ankle. Now accounting for pain and
suffering, loss of physical ability, cost of hiring aid and the
cost of subsequent medical needs of the ankle over his projected live
expectancy of perhaps 50 years, how much did he net from an additional
year's work (or do I mean play)?