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In article <85y87oyx7f.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Torkel Franzen <torkel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Karl M. Bunday <kmbunday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> I like to read the replies to the cranks because reading serious
>>> mathematicians explaining errors of logic is educational.
>> Surely not after the umpteenth explanation?
> Oh, there are educational strokes of genius from time to time, things
> where you say "well, they just _have_ to understand it the way it is
> explained now".
Genius, yes -- of the Will Rogers variety.
The only thing that keeps me from killfiling whole threads is the
promise of some great wit.
"BN pairs", f'rinstance.
dave
To speak algebraically: Mr. Mathews is execrable but Mr. Channing is
(x+1)ecrable.
- Edgar Allen Poe, describing two writers.
quoted in Clifton Fadiman's "Fantasia Mathematica",
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