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Holly wrote:
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>> >> >> >> 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 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!
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> 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?

It's not in my genes.

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

What can I say about my poly-morphic Zen pleasure machine?

I like it all!

> 
>>
>> > Here is question number two.
>> > Have you ever killed your own food?
>>
>> No.
> 
> I take it that you are not a redneck.

So, it's so.

> 
> Well done, on question numbered 'two.'

I'm moved.
-- 
ah