My dad and I were on a backpacking trip and while hiking we calculated how thin the atmosphere was compared to sea level. It feels more elegant sometimes to so

My dad and I were on a backpacking trip and while hiking we calculated how thin the atmosphere was compared to sea level. It feels more elegant sometimes to solve a problem simply (in paper, in your head) without bringing out the computers. See Dijkstra on sum/product puzzle: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD666.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EW...