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Invisible wrote:
> I'll admit I have often wondered why all the best stuff was invented by
> people who weren't British.
<snarky> How would you know? You don't know who they are! </snarky>
(Sorry. Couldn't resist that one. I'm bad, yes.)
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On what day did God create the body thetans?
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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
>>
>> BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
>>
>> no final R sound?
>>
>
> Nope, in French the letters "er" at the end of words are generally
So why are the first two sounds different?
(And I'm reminded of Warp's observation that throwing in extra vowels
and H's and Y's doesn't really help if you don't already natively speak
English. :-)
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On what day did God create the body thetans?
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Darren New wrote:
> OK, the point *I* was making is that people still remember who Russell
> is and what he did 100 years ago, while "normal programmers" half the
> time don't even get their names displayed in the credits of their own
> creations.
Mmm, OK.
> Just FYI, Russell did for set theory (i.e., the basis of most
> or all modern math) what Godel and Turing did for their fields.
*resists urge to ask who Godel is*
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andrel wrote:
> No actually I think you have no idea what astonishment you create when
> you admit you have never heard of Russell or his profound impact on
> mathematics and logic.
Right. Well the history of... well anything really... isn't my strong point.
FWIW, I saw some pretty astonished faces when I admitted that I
mistakenly thought that Brazil is in Europe. (I now realise quite how
wrong I in fact was...)
> What makes it even more unbelievable is that you are an Englishman (or
> so you claim). The English tend to be rather proud of their own history
> (yes, he was English).
What can I say? I'm not very patriotic. (I know we suck at a number of
popular sports, despite the fact that we personally invented them...)
>> Who Russell is and what the paradox is about is rather orthoganol to
>> the point I was actually trying to make...
>>
> Yes, but this is off-topic, we are allowed to drift here.
OK, you win. ;-)
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I'll admit I have often wondered why all the best stuff was invented
>> by people who weren't British.
>
> <snarky> How would you know? You don't know who they are! </snarky>
>
> (Sorry. Couldn't resist that one. I'm bad, yes.)
L'Hospital sounds like a typical English name to me... :-}
(But then, in an Ask the Audience round one time, 4% of the people
thought that "Ludwig van Bathoven" was English. Hell, even *I* can
figure that out out...)
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> FWIW, I saw some pretty astonished faces when I admitted that I
> mistakenly thought that Brazil is in Europe. (I now realise quite how
> wrong I in fact was...)
o_O
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> FWIW, I saw some pretty astonished faces when I admitted that I
>> mistakenly thought that Brazil is in Europe. (I now realise quite how
>> wrong I in fact was...)
>
> o_O
yes, everyone knows Brazil is a province in Buenos Aires... :P
hey, Orchid, do you care for anything other than math and algorythms?
Do you know how the real world works? How about getting started on it
rather than being flamed to death as someone stupid? We know you're a
bright guy, you just need to expand your horizons a bit...
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Just FYI, Russell did for set theory (i.e., the basis of most or all
>> modern math) what Godel and Turing did for their fields.
>
> *resists urge to ask who Godel is*
good thing your curiosity was not complete. ;)
well, at least you seem aware of Turing. or at least his machine...
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> (But then, in an Ask the Audience round one time, 4% of the people
> thought that "Ludwig van Bathoven" was English. Hell, even *I* can
> figure that out out...)
Beethoven. wonderful painter, huh? ;)
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nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> Just FYI, Russell did for set theory (i.e., the basis of most or all
>>> modern math) what Godel and Turing did for their fields.
>>
>> *resists urge to ask who Godel is*
>
> good thing your curiosity was not complete. ;)
>
> well, at least you seem aware of Turing. or at least his machine...
I live about 15 miles from Bletchley Part. C'mon! ;-)
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