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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre mathematics
Message-ID: <350@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 13:16:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 13:16:38 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 13:34:15 EDT
References: <2452@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <346@ihdev.UUCP> <2463@ut-ngp.UTEXAS>
Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie)
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In article <2463@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> dlnash@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Donald L. Nash) writes:
>In <346@ihdev.UUCP>, a follow up to my bizarre mathematics posting, 
>pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) writes:
>
>> In article <2452@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> dlnash@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Donald L. Nash) writes:
>
>    /* My message here.*/
>
>> "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....
>>
>> Come on, NO plaguerism even in net.bizarre!
>
>Ooooooops!  Sorrrrry!  No plaguerism intended.  Yes, I did see that stuff in
>BYTE, but I also learned it in calculus class before I read it in BYTE.  The
>idea of that funnel having infinite surface area and finite volume is not
>new.  I posted it on the net for the benefit of those people who do not 
>subscribe to BYTE.  I was not aware that posting such well known facts
>(well known in the area of mathematics, anyway) constituted plaguerism.
>PLEASE, no flames to my mailbox.  I apologize if I have insulted or injured
>anyone.
>
>					Don Nash
>
>UUCP:  ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!dlnash
>APRA:  dlnash@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU

It's me that owes the apology. On closer examination of Byte, the words
were different, and Donald Nash is quite correct, does not constitute
anything near plaguerism. Sorry, it won't happen again, and I will keep
my future postings to this group as bizarre as possible.

				Paul Guthrie.
P.s. Please send all flames to net.flame as I don't read it! :-)