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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (John)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre mathematics
Message-ID: <519@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 14:27:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: talcott.519
Posted: Mon Oct  7 14:27:00 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Oct-85 06:37:56 EDT
References: <2452@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <346@ihdev.UUCP>
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Summary: All math comes from popular magazines.

In article <346@ihdev.UUCP>, pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) writes:
> In article <2452@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> dlnash@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Donald L. Nash) writes:
> >Here's a bit of bizarre math stuff which may warp your mind.  Imagine
> >if you will, the graph of the function y = 1/x from x=1 to x=infinity.
> >I'm sure that everyone out there is smart enough to draw this picture
> >mentally.  Now rotate this graph about the x-axis...
...
> "Mathematical Recreations: Pi, e and all that" By Robert T. Kurosaka.
> Byte Magazine, September 1985, v10 no.9, P.409
> 
> Credit where credit is due....

This man is giving Byte magazine the credit for a math problem between two
and three centuries old.  Now that's bizarre!

P.S. You'll never guess when the fast fourier transform was invented...
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