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Like the old saying:

Military justice is to justice as military music is to music


(I saw this on a math department bulletin board about 1960)

A theorem both deep and profound States that every circle is round But in a paper by Erdos Written in Kurdish A counterexample is found


I suspect there is a great joke embedded in here, but sadly it went over my head. Any help?


Erdős rhymes with Kurdish.

EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If you co-auth a paper with someone with an Erdős number of one, then you have an Erdős number of two etc.

I think that the Bacon (Kevin Bacon) number was the original and there is also a Black Sabbath number which is related to Ozzie (MHRiP).

I also gather that a very few people have managed a minimum measure of all three numbers. Feynman might be one of them (its too late to check).


Did you use the regular version or the one with multiple-precision values?


I used the regular version. Actually, I don't even know what is multiple-precision values -- will look it up.


Clif bars recently went from 6 bars per box to 5. They write the 5 on the box as if it is something improved, not reduced.


The government is in the hands of D&F players.


Only because the politics of most common idiot id the cheapest for monied interests to manufacture.

Business is much worse at the same scale.

Infact, you probably cant find any org at large scale that functions in rational, logic driven capacity.

So theres just a bogeyman, not a useful critique of government.


As Disney almost wrote:

Everybody wants to be a bat Cause noone but a bat really knows where it's at


They will never own their mistakes. That's the point of lack of democracy.


Make sure that is legal where you are and, if needed, you have their permission.


There are enough evil people that the present is as bad as it is.


TIL


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