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That book was largely superceded by the classic work of D. Gital, 'Principals 0f Regressive Enumeration' which unified the Cascading Theories of the 17th century Dutch mathematician Count Backvoord.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 10:16:15 AM EST
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Re: Mentors (4.00 / 2)

Ohthat was a productive period of Aristocratic mathematical history what with him and the eminent german count Von Twothree.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 10:23:57 AM EST
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Re: Mentors (4.00 / 3)

Do you know about how the german count was mistaken for the russian Fayev? Hence the expression

Never mistake Von Twothree for Fayev.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 10:29:33 AM EST
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Re: Mentors (none / 1)

And then there was the other counfusion involving said russian and the sino-icelandic expert Trituu-Wan.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 10:32:51 AM EST
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Re: Mentors (4.00 / 2)

I think you are referring to the Burmese astronomist Tretoo-Wan-Bang

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 10:49:17 AM EST
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I thought he was one of their rocket scientists (none / 0)

transfered to Penemunde after the Burma campaign. Von Braun would have gone nowhere without him.

by Gaianne on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 11:10:35 AM EST
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Re: I thought he was one (none / 1)

This is not rocket science, you know

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 11:15:03 AM EST
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Re: I thought he was one (4.00 / 2)

What do rocket scientists use in exchange for that phrase?

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 12:54:45 PM EST
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Re: I thought he was one (none / 1)

Now there you have asked one of the fundamental questions. I can see a sketch in there, but it doesn't quite translate into Finnish.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 01:14:04 PM EST
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Re: I thought he was one (none / 0)

This isn't brain surgery? Of course, my personal favourite is the mixed metaphor: this isn't rocket surgery, you know...

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 01:37:28 PM EST
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Rocket surgery (none / 1)

I don't think any task really compares with reconfiguring the tubing on a rocket engine while it is running.

by Gaianne on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:39:24 PM EST
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Re: I thought he was one of their rocket scientist (none / 0)

I thought the point was for the rocket to go somewhere.

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Wed Mar 14th, 2007 at 08:08:50 PM EST
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Re: I thought he was one of their rocket scientist (none / 1)

Well that's just a matter of presentation. if you add up the distances that the constituent parts travelled I think you'll find that it was in fact a successful launch

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 03:56:43 AM EST
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Re: I thought he was one of their rocket scientist (4.00 / 2)

point was for the rocket to go somewhere.

You're no fun.

by Gaianne on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:47:22 PM EST
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