77. Perhaps I shall do a multiplication
twice to make sure, or perhaps get someone else to work it over. But shall I
work it over again twenty times, or get twenty people to go over it? And is
that some sort of negligence? Would the certainty really be greater for being
checked twenty times?
if you check a calculation –
what you are checking –
is whether you have performed it correctly
–
and ‘correctly’ here means –
in terms of the rules that govern it
you can never be sure –
checking –
won’t deliver certainty
© greg t. charlton. 2009.
