[Dragaera] The New Palace

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Tue, June 1, 2010 12:33, Philip Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>> Dragaeran architects (and engineers?) are going to care a lot more about
>> how long things stand up.  The original architect will quite possibly
>> still be around and findable 2000 years later; his reputation could be
>> damaged by early buildings of his collapsing.
>
> I'm not aware of solid evidence for the following, but I suspect that
> math is highly developed in the empire as a consequence of the
> development and intense investigation of sorcery, which would I think
> naturally lead to good engineering.

Depends what math applies to sorcery.  Abstract algebra isn't a major
engineering field of math, for example.

And they'd have to find the connections, still.

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