[Edu-sig] Brute force solutions

[Daniel Ajoy]

On 22 Sep 2005 at 12:00, (Kirby Urner) wrote:

> > Some lessons that might be learned from this approach:
> > 
> > (1) when working with floats, you want to compare differences, not check for
> > equalities, e.g. looking for when b/a == 1/b would be a bad idea.
> > 
> > (2) you get greater accuracy in exchange for more cycles
> > 
> > (3) visualization helps


My approach to teaching about phi is by asking kids to draw 
construction #78

http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/Construcciones.html 

Daniel





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