THE MATHEMATIC CLERIC

Why do dictionaries have page numbers? What's that for? Are there people who refer to words by the pages they're on? Is there some weird reading circle that reads it from page one to page 450? I cannot think of any possible benefit to having those pages numbered.

You know what I think it is? The numbers people have put pressure on the word people to include them. The word people, they know all about bigotry, intolerance and exclusion - they know what these terms mean. They don't want to alienate the numbers people so they included their tin pot belief system in the dictionary.

But do we have to pander to the mathematicians? They want their own schools, their own books of learning, but they still kick up a stink when they're not included in our dictionary.

You want to follow the ways of mathematics? Go back to wherever you came from and stop preaching maths to us.