Mark Sanford

How To Find The Area Between Tangent Circles - The Easy Way

My grandson posed an interesting problem to me the other day that involved geometry. He was trying to find the area between circles that touch each other at single points, sometimes called tangent circles. It has been a long time since I was in school and the same for studying geometry, so I went to the Internet to find a solution. At first glance, it seems to be a fairly involved problem since... (posted by Mark 2 years 223 days ago.)

Be Careful What You Say About Others

Perhaps one of the most despicable sins that can be committed is the defamation of another person's character. Scripture states that "it is akin to murder and worthy there of the judgment as such." This particular sin is one of the few that calls down upon the sinner a corporal punishment (punishment while alive) that can be quite devastating. These punishments take on many forms depending upon the severity of the... (posted by Mark 3 years 28 days ago.)

The Ai Function

A relationship between objects can always be written, that is, everything that exists has some relationship with everything else. Whether that relationship is definable or not is only limited by other parameters. That being said, the key to any artificial intellect is to design the system with the ability to take any set of objects in any space and in short order write their true mathematical relationship. Most of the modern scientific... (posted by Mark 3 years 41 days ago.)

A Little Known Secret

Maybe it was just a correlation between events that opened my eyes. My septic system, being twenty years old, was slowing down. That is, it was running slower than it should and everything in the house was backing up. After much research and work, the system was back on line and doing the job. I found out that, especially older septics must have a generous supply of active bacteria in the tank in order to break down the solids. When... (posted by Mark 3 years 42 days ago.)

Wages Of Sin

It is difficult to define sin in a world that denies all sin. What once was sinful has become the accepted value in society. So does sin exist? And if so, what is sin? Sin, as defined by the theologies of the world, is the disobedience of God's laws. But what is God's law and what is man's? Mankind has defined sin by varying standards, making the definition subjective to interpretation. Wars were fought, people were tortured and millions... (posted by Mark 3 years 48 days ago.)

There Is No Such Thing As Nothing

If nothing existed then that nothing would be something therefore nothing cannot exist, a simple statement of logic with huge implications. The contra positive of this statement - If something did not exist then that something would be nothing which would be something, therefore something must exist, has even greater implications. That something' that must exist is God. We can see that it is impossible for God not to... (posted by Mark 3 years 48 days ago.)