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From: jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Plaguerism [sic]
Message-ID: <1106@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 23:47:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 23:47:08 1985
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> => > "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
> 
> Plaguerism, eh?  Must be bubonic.  Must be an unfortunate result of not
> PLAGIARIZING enough.  Sigh.  Better get in touch with Tom Lehrer for the
> antidote (I suppose he's one of those not on the USENET) . . . he could
> tell you all about Lobachevsky.
> 
> Helen Anne
> 

Pardon me, Helen Anne, who/what is Lobachevsky.  It seems that I
knew this name from somewhen before.  


>      {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun}!dual!hav 
> 
> "J. Frank Parnell."
> "Ott . . . Otto."
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