7.1 Part 2

1. Nothing too difficult here. I either understand it really well or not well at all. Sorry I can't be of more help here.

2. I'm going to assume that I really don't understand this well at all (even though I think I do). I tutor kids in math, and I hear a lot of kids say, "This is the most useless stuff. I'm never going to use this. Why am I learning this?" Of course, I can see the applicability of what they're learning. They could too, if they really understood the story problems. But there aren't story problems in this book. I can think of using these, uh, constructs as tools toward proving that certain systems will have certain behavior, that could help in the design of, well, a lot of things, I think.