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ah wrote:
> Holly wrote:
> > ah wrote:
> >> Holly wrote:
> >> > ah wrote:
> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> > ah wrote:
> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> > Put down your socks and get ready to get yer priZe!
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > "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 Poincaré
> >> >> >> > 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."
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Poincaré'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 Poincaré 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!
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Considering the intractable n=7, it's no surprise.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Intractable because it could take forever?  Deterministic?  A time
> >> >> > complexity?
> >> >>
> >> >> Standard deviation, I guess.
> >> >>
> >> >> > · DTIME(T(n)) = ...  <scratch n sniff>
> >> >>
> >> >> Filth!
> >> >> --
> >> >> ah
> >> >
> >> > What part of your body do you scratch N sniff?
> >>
> >> It may be more time-wise to ask "Which part do you not...".
> >
> > I thought you'd have a favorite part.  After I workout, especially if I
> > have been in the sun, I like to run my hands through my hair (on my
> > head) then smell my fingers.  I do not scratch and sniff most of my
> > body: par exemple, my feet or my derriere and the odor of breasts seems
> > to escape me.  Do breasts exude their own parfume?  Of course, I quite
> > agree that everyone who has one would scratch n sniff their "Africa."
>
> Sick!

A knee-jerk reaction?

> >
> > Well you did poorly on that question.
>
> But, my body holds no favo(u)rites!

Ah ... "crepuscular melange."

>
> > Here is question number two.
> > Have you ever killed your own food?
>
> No.

I take it that you are not a redneck.

Well done, on question numbered 'two.'