Part 25 (2/2)

Sir Piotr's wedding ell attended, and the weather was so fine that they held the reception outside

While talking to Count Laested that I look up at the sky I looked A large, two-place sailplane was circling overhead The pilot ood ther for hours So now, in addition to everything else, I had to build an aircraft engine!

FROM THE DIARY OF PIOTR KULCZYNSKI

And so it was that on a beautiful spring day in the year 1237 1 married my love Krystyana, and we lived happily ever after, or reasonably so

Interlude Four The tape wound to a stop

”Good God, what a training prograist instead of being an engineer! And that graduation cere why armies in the twentieth century didn't use the same techniques”

”It wouldn't have worked,” To with some very uneducated and naive troops With a s like that firewalking stunt A good modem soldier is a very well educated and superbly well trained specialist

You don't want stupid troops, not when they have to operate soiven his situation, cousin Conrad did the right thing I'hts andit out during some of the slow parts on the tape”

”Yeah, I saw you playing with the calculator Did it ”

”Well, it's flat aht! The way his mile works out at 1728 of his yards, and his pound comes out at one 1728th of a ton, and even his volt and his pint coht! All at accuracies better than could be osh numbers' to believe”

”Well, it wasn't all luck Conrad was using a base twelve nu with base eight and base sixteen The ancient Indo-Europeans, our ancestors, used that same base twelve system for many thousands of years, and used it for their own systems of measureers and invented the deci was just setting things back to the old, sensible way of doing things”

”But enough of this Supper is getting cold, and the girls tell ht's entertainment Let's close it up!”