On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Nate Murray wrote:

> # == Slide
> # Mathematical procedures are, in effect, abstractions that describe
> compound operations on
> # numbers independent of the particular numbers. For example, when we
>
> def cube(a)
>  a * a * a
> end

def cube(n) n ** 3 end

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