[EricH]

Originally Posted by boomergeek

The idea of the Leno test was to demonstrate that: "CW and old guys rule!"

And the idea of <G14> is to penalize the teams that do really well.

Can't really prove it either way, can you? I'm not saying that this isn't true, I'm saying that it's kind of hard to guess intent from the results. (And yes, I read all of the <G14> debate, and I prefer an alternative explanation to the one above.)

But if you really want speed in person to person message communication, how about 637 wpm?
http://members.fortunecity.com/talker2/talk.htm
Steve Woodmore can speak at 637 words per minute, which is 10.25 words per second.

So that's who does the "fine print" in the radio ads! (For those that don't listen to such ads much, it's a guy/gal talking way too fast to be fully understood. It's like the fine print in newspaper ads--has to be there, but is kept out of the way as much as possible.)

Part of it could also be for the same reason teachers in more advanced math classes let students use calculators: because using machines instead of your brain to do more basic tasks frees the mind to concentrate on other things. Do you use a calculator or would you force yourself to compute long series of mathematical operations in your head?

My math classes vary. Diff? Nope, not on tests. Calc 1 and 2? Yep, though we did have to learn Maple. Calc 3? I don't remember. I use a calculator, or, for Physics, Maple.

I think you may mean engineering courses... My engineering courses allow calculators, but for some parts, certain functions are barred. (A recent Intro to Solid Mechanics test on stress analysis comes to mind--no using eigenvalue or eigenvector functions--neither of which I have anyway, to my knowledge.)