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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Booked
Date: 14 Apr 2011 17:11:12
Message: <4da762f0$1@news.povray.org>
According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week", 
so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest 
book to you. (Yeah, right!)

Unfortunately, in my case that's

"Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to 
make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its 
partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."

Rather unsurprising, really. o_O

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 14 Apr 2011 17:30:02
Message: <4DA76758.4040802@gmail.com>
On 14-4-2011 23:11, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)
>
> Unfortunately, in my case that's
>
> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to
> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its
> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."
>
> Rather unsurprising, really. o_O
>

Het /Organon/ heeft niet als doel om lezers te vertellen wat waar is, 
maar om in methoden te voorzien om de waarheid te onderzoeken en de 
wereld te begrijpen.

or

The /Organon/ is not intended to tell readers what is true, but to 
provide methods to investigate the truth and understand the world.



-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 14 Apr 2011 17:34:36
Message: <4da7686c$1@news.povray.org>
On 4/14/2011 14:30, andrel wrote:
> The /Organon/ is not intended to tell readers what is true, but to provide
> methods to investigate the truth and understand the world.


"No picture."

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 14 Apr 2011 18:07:55
Message: <4da7703b@news.povray.org>
"It doesn't pay to rob trains."

from "Holding up a train" in a collection of O. Henry works.  It's page 
52 on my particular setting of font and margin size for the ebook in my 
smartphone. ;)

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From: Kevin Wampler
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 14 Apr 2011 18:49:18
Message: <4da779ee$1@news.povray.org>
Last year I did this and lucked out that my copy of "Being and 
Nothingness" was nearby.  I think I got the pretty awesome sentence:

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being -- like a worm."


This year I was not so fortunate:

"Let g be a multivariate function of n variables and let f be a vector 
function such that f = (f_1(θ), f_2(θ) ... f_n(θ))^T with each f_i a 
univariate function of the scalar θ."


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 15 Apr 2011 01:13:53
Message: <4da7d411$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:11:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

The nearest book to me is my Nook, which has, well, several hundred 
(quite possibly over a thousand) texts on it.  Gutenberg FTW (plus a good 
number of freebies from B&N as well as some that I've purchased from 
them). :)

I wonder how I should select one.  I've got three that I'm currently 
actively reading - the others, largely are there for reference and as an 
"if I get around to it" list.

Jim


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 16 Apr 2011 09:27:21
Message: <4da99938@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to 
> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its 
> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."

  Sounds like a book about dating.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 16 Apr 2011 10:23:37
Message: <4da9a669$1@news.povray.org>
On 16/04/2011 02:27 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to
>> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its
>> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."
>
>    Sounds like a book about dating.

[insert witty remark here]

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Mr
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 16 Apr 2011 11:20:01
Message: <web.4da9b2f2bf4f3e0d128f47250@news.povray.org>



In Jules Verne's novel : Paris au XXe Siecle


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Booked
Date: 16 Apr 2011 11:36:50
Message: <4da9b791@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week", 
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest 
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

  The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
"nearest" to me. How do I choose?

  And I assume comic books don't count.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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