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Holly wrote:
> Michael Baldwin, Bruce wrote:
>> Holly wrote:
>>> Put down your socks and get ready to get yer priZe!
>> 
>> Quit yer grinnin' and drop yer linen.
> 
> Good one.  I would edit it thusly.  "Quit your grinnin' and drop yer linen."

Why?

> 
>> 
>>> "Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory
>>> Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved
>>> a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar�
>>> conjecture, about the nature of space.
>>>
>>> After posting a few short papers on the Internet and making a whirlwind
>>> lecture tour of the United States, Dr. Perelman disappeared back into
>>> the Russian woods in the spring of 2003, leaving the world's
>>> mathematicians to pick up the pieces and decide if he was right.
>>>
>>> Now they say they have finished his work, and the evidence is
>>> circulating among scholars in the form of three book-length papers with
>>> about 1,000 pages of dense mathematics and prose between them.
>>>
>>> As a result there is a growing feeling, a cautious optimism that they
>>> have finally achieved a landmark not just of mathematics, but of human
>>> thought."
>>>
>>>
>>> Poincar�'s conjecture:  "It asserts that if any loop in a certain
>>> kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without
>>> ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is
>>> equivalent to a sphere. "
>>>
>>> "In effect, what Poincar� suggested was that anything without holes
>>> has to be a sphere. The one qualification was that this "anything"
>>> had to be what mathematicians call compact, or closed, meaning that it
>>> has a finite extent: no matter how far you strike out in one direction
>>> or another, you can get only so far away before you start coming back,
>>> the way you can never get more than 12,500 miles from home on the
>>> Earth."
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin
>>>
>>> Now this is exciting!
>> 
>> This just doesn't add up.
>> 


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ah