Comments on: Off-Topic: “Plans Unfolding” Paper Organizer Software http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/off-topic-plans-unfolding-paper-organizer-software/ Lost Art in the Mathematical Sciences Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Grace in VT http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/off-topic-plans-unfolding-paper-organizer-software/#comment-574 Grace in VT Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:58:38 +0000 http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/off-topic-plans-unfolding-paper-organizer-software/#comment-574 <p>Hi, I just came across your plans unfolding software. I want to thank you for creating this. I am quite ill and we have a daughter with ADD, both of us need help in planning. I am about to set it up for the first time for our use.. and wondered if you ever do a chart for listing medications or some sort of table to choose from? The worst issue for her is time management, in juggling 5 jobs.<br /> Thank you for your wisdom and kindness in sharing plans unfolding. I will be playing around with it to help our life. I also had a mathematical question... about Fractals.<br /> I do not understand them but I want to feature the way fractals look in my art.<br /> How can I determine a fractal, is it just random or can i make up my own?<br /> Like could i measure something and have it just repeat.<br /> And how can i create the fractal number into an image for art?<br /> I am much older now ( 50's) and so the brain is tired.... but when I was graduating and entering college I beat out all the men in a math exam (when I was considering air force). I ended up not going into the service...but that has always intrigued me that math for me was stronger than my verbal skills... and the air force team that tested us wanted me badly for engineering because I did do so well, even as a woman!!.<br /> Anyway. I just had to thank you for all your talents in creating plans unfolding and your site.<br /> I will spend a while trying to make templates to suit us. My husband will be thrilled!<br /> I am going to pass your site to my pastor who has a doctorate and went to school for chemistry and theology. He always carries around tiny pieces of paper to jot on. He will love it.<br /> God bless you for your kindness,<br /> thank you,<br /> Grace in VT</p> <p><em>Thank you for your comments, Grace. It's nice to hear from people who have such interests. I'd be happy to help create tables that could serve as some sort of schedule for medications if you have the information you'd like to put into the table. I'll send an email directly to you about this and we can plan out the types of tables you would like. It does take some time to learn how to make page templates, and I think I could create them very quickly for you. As for fractals, I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable at all about them. I do know that they are based on specific formulas or algorithms that are repeated over and over using the result of the previous iteration (called recursion), sometimes using complex numbers in the calculations and their plots in the complex plane as the images. I see there is a nice introduction at the website "Fractal Explorer" that has a link on a general listing of fractal references found at <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Chaos_and_Fractals/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Chaos_and_Fractals/</a>. But this is something I've never studied myself. --- Ron</em></p> Hi, I just came across your plans unfolding software. I want to thank you for creating this. I am quite ill and we have a daughter with ADD, both of us need help in planning. I am about to set it up for the first time for our use.. and wondered if you ever do a chart for listing medications or some sort of table to choose from? The worst issue for her is time management, in juggling 5 jobs.
Thank you for your wisdom and kindness in sharing plans unfolding. I will be playing around with it to help our life. I also had a mathematical question… about Fractals.
I do not understand them but I want to feature the way fractals look in my art.
How can I determine a fractal, is it just random or can i make up my own?
Like could i measure something and have it just repeat.
And how can i create the fractal number into an image for art?
I am much older now ( 50’s) and so the brain is tired…. but when I was graduating and entering college I beat out all the men in a math exam (when I was considering air force). I ended up not going into the service…but that has always intrigued me that math for me was stronger than my verbal skills… and the air force team that tested us wanted me badly for engineering because I did do so well, even as a woman!!.
Anyway. I just had to thank you for all your talents in creating plans unfolding and your site.
I will spend a while trying to make templates to suit us. My husband will be thrilled!
I am going to pass your site to my pastor who has a doctorate and went to school for chemistry and theology. He always carries around tiny pieces of paper to jot on. He will love it.
God bless you for your kindness,
thank you,
Grace in VT

Thank you for your comments, Grace. It’s nice to hear from people who have such interests. I’d be happy to help create tables that could serve as some sort of schedule for medications if you have the information you’d like to put into the table. I’ll send an email directly to you about this and we can plan out the types of tables you would like. It does take some time to learn how to make page templates, and I think I could create them very quickly for you.

As for fractals, I’m afraid I’m not knowledgeable at all about them. I do know that they are based on specific formulas or algorithms that are repeated over and over using the result of the previous iteration (called recursion), sometimes using complex numbers in the calculations and their plots in the complex plane as the images. I see there is a nice introduction at the website “Fractal Explorer” that has a link on a general listing of fractal references found at http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Chaos_and_Fractals/. But this is something I’ve never studied myself. — Ron

]]> By: glen http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/off-topic-plans-unfolding-paper-organizer-software/#comment-558 glen Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:26:21 +0000 http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/off-topic-plans-unfolding-paper-organizer-software/#comment-558 <p>letter paper :</p> <p>I don’t have any of that…</p> <p><em>Hi Glen. Yup, I know what you mean, another mismatch of standards that gets more and more problematic as time goes on. On my end I don’t have any A4 paper although my printer will print on it if I had it. And even worse for you, the Planisphere sky map only works in the Northern Hemisphere, and the moon phase picture wouldn’t be right side up for you either. Sorry about all that. It is possible to scale the letter paper output to A4 paper size (keeping the same aspect ratio) and cutting off the excess at the top and bottom if you want.— Ron</em></p> <p><em>UPDATE October 12, 2008: A version of Plans Unfolding for A4 paper has been released. The announcement with links, etc., can be found on the forum <a href="http://myreckonings.com/forum/index.php?topic=23.0" rel="nofollow">here</a>. --- Ron</em></p> letter paper :

I don’t have any of that…

Hi Glen. Yup, I know what you mean, another mismatch of standards that gets more and more problematic as time goes on. On my end I don’t have any A4 paper although my printer will print on it if I had it. And even worse for you, the Planisphere sky map only works in the Northern Hemisphere, and the moon phase picture wouldn’t be right side up for you either. Sorry about all that. It is possible to scale the letter paper output to A4 paper size (keeping the same aspect ratio) and cutting off the excess at the top and bottom if you want.— Ron

UPDATE October 12, 2008: A version of Plans Unfolding for A4 paper has been released. The announcement with links, etc., can be found on the forum here. — Ron

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