Iliaden - your avatar is *very* cool. I was a math major until a class innocently titled "Basic Algebra 1" kicked my rear in my senior year as an undergrad; this was after I had managed to pass ~ 80 hours of calculus, diffeq's vectors, stats, etc. The class was my intro to Fields, Ideals Monoids and Group Theory. The only "numbers" in the entire book were 0 and 1. The take home final was simply: "Prove the Chinese Remainder Theorem".

Sadly, I could not. The prof had mercy on me, gave me a 'C' and I was allowed to switch my major to Computer Science.

But, I still sign my name with the 'S' drawn as an integral sign, from -infinity to +infinity. I love math - just not smart enough to make a living at it. I still read Sci Am and greatly enjoy the occasional math article, particularly mathematics dealing infinity.

Steve

BTW it = 69