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From: Tim Cook
Subject: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 05:24:44
Message: <4807175c$1@news.povray.org>
...and so Edward Lorenz died.

Famous people are dropping like flies lately.

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Tim Cook
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 05:36:25
Message: <48071a19$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> ...and so Edward Lorenz died.
> 
> Famous people are dropping like flies lately.

...Edward Lorenz was still alive??? 0_0

Damn, you learn something every day...

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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 10:27:25
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> schreef in bericht 
news:48071a19$1@news.povray.org...

> ...Edward Lorenz was still alive??? 0_0
>
> Damn, you learn something every day...
>
the butterfly passed him by.... :-)

Thomas


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From: Kevin Wampler
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:47:50
Message: <4807b776$1@news.povray.org>
I always found him to be a strangely attractive mathematical figure.

Sort of neat how a mathematical concept which has become so solidly 
ingrained in out way of thinking originated recently enough that its 
discoverer only just passed away.


Tim Cook wrote:
> ...and so Edward Lorenz died.
> 
> Famous people are dropping like flies lately.
>


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 16:55:56
Message: <4807b95c$1@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Sort of neat how a mathematical concept which has become so solidly 
> ingrained in out way of thinking originated recently enough that its 
> discoverer only just passed away.

Indeed. One tends to think of "mathematicians" as those people who lived 
in ancient Greece several millenia ago. It seems strange to think that 
some of them are still alive today...

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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 00:38:22
Message: <480825be@news.povray.org>
"Kevin Wampler" <wampler+pov### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message
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> I always found him to be a strangely attractive mathematical figure.

*groan*


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From: Kevin Wampler
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 02:54:37
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Kevin Wampler" <wampler+pov### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message
> news:4807b776$1@news.povray.org...
>> I always found him to be a strangely attractive mathematical figure.
> 
> *groan*

Thank you, I'll be here all night!


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: A butterfly has flapped its wings...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 04:42:12
Message: <48085ee4@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Kevin Wampler" <wampler+pov### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message
> news:4807b776$1@news.povray.org...
>> I always found him to be a strangely attractive mathematical figure.
> 
> *groan*

OK, I can't *believe* I missed that one... :-.

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