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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Square root of exp?
Message-ID: <3586@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 00:14:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 00:14:18 1985
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Reply-To: das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

About a dozen years ago, Bruce Resnick (sp?  It's been a while) as a Caltech
undergrad did some investigation of f such that f(f(x)) = sin x.  Being an
incurable punster, the subtitle of the paper was "What you have to do twice
in order to sin".

(Bruce is the same fellow who, on the eve of his 20th birthday, was frantic.
When asked why, he explained, "I've got to prove something worthwhile!".
"Why?"  "So I can say I did it when I was a teenager.")

On that theme, trivia time:  Who killed Galois?  What were they fighting over?
What became of the man who killed him?  (I don't know the answers.)

-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das