[FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] The DeFrocked English Major Strikes Again

[Stephen Guerin]

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 7:01 AM Pedersen, David John II <pedersen at lanl.gov>
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> *David J. Pedersen II*
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [FRIAM] The DeFrocked English Major Strikes Again
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> I am pretty sure this the stupidest question I have ever asked this
> forum,, so I am at your mercy.
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> I am in one of those situations where language and mathematics are rubbing
> together and driving crazy.
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> Let say that my patio is ten steps down from my back door.  I have two
> cats,  Dee and Ess, and  Dee is dominant to Ess.  So, if I go out to let
> them in, and I find  Ess on step -2   and  Dee on step -8,  I know I have
> an unstable situation .   And I would  rate the degree of instability as a
> positive 6.  How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get  a
> minus 6.
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> But let’s say that for conceptual reasons I want to conceive of the
> situation as a degree of stability, with negative stability corresponding
> to instability.   Now, according  to my index, the situation is a minus 6.
> How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get  a minus 6.
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> The situation I am trying to model here is the origin of the notion of
> static stability in meteorology.  Static Stability has a lot to do with
> differential lapse rates.  But lapse rates are minus numbers.  So a parcel
> is unstable if it has a lower lapse rate than surrounding parcels, and the
> greater the absolute value the difference between them, the greater the
> instability.
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> I asked “George” (GPT) to help me with this, but he suggested I just take
> absolute values and give them whatever sign I want, but somebody told me,
> way back when, that taking absolute values was not kosher in mathematics.
> (Why else would the variance be the mean SQUARED deviation about  the
> mean?).
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