{"id":272,"date":"2009-03-04T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/professionals-check-what-they-broke\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:09:32","slug":"professionals-check-what-they-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/professionals-check-what-they-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Professionals Check What They Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2009\/02\/stepping_up_divison_by_zero_to.phpompany.heb.com\/\">Mark Chu-Carroll<\/a>, on how to tell if someone defining division-by-zero is a competent mathematician,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One good way of recognizing a crank is by looking at what they do with their new division-by-zero defining system. A serious mathematician starts working out what affect their definition has on the basic axioms, and what still works. A crank defines division by zero, and then proceeds to continue working as if they haven&#8217;t broken anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2009\/02\/stepping_up_divison_by_zero_to.phpompany.heb.com\/\">Mark Chu-Carroll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are parallels in most every profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Chu-Carroll, on how to tell if someone defining division-by-zero is a competent mathematician, One good way of recognizing a crank is by looking at what they do with their new division-by-zero defining system. A serious mathematician starts working out what affect their definition has on the basic axioms, and what still works. A crank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}