Comment on India 7 - Deadlines, sickness and concerts by Chandra

Don't be modest to cover up your sins. I am serious in my admiration for your productivity.

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough"

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Author : deepu (IP: 203.200.95.130 , delhi-203.200.95-130.static.vsnl.net.in)
Comment:
say u r so impecunious to pay for a better place in India...

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough"

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Author : Sariel Har-Peled (IP: 202.141.70.18 , 202.141.70.18)
Comment:
Thank you for your kind comment. I am completely grateful for it.

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Comment on India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough by dvs

u seem to be an outspoken, ungrateful asshole

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 4 - Glory made"

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Author : Rafi (IP: 89.1.250.113 , 89.1.250.113.dynamic.barak-online.net)
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Regardless of the quality of math education in the US and bananananana, about which you may be right, I never saw the point of teaching kids long division or other elaborate computational procedures (and I recently read an interesting article of a non-mathematician programmer who realized how math could be very useful, gives tips on how to learn it and claims that most of what they teach in school is useless. He gave long division as an example. I agree).

Long division doesn't help anyone do anything. They once taught kids how to approximate logarithms with logarithm tables. I'm sure you're not used to that, and there's no reason you should be, even though they might still teach it in some places where they teach long division. All these useless procedures are also responsible for making people think math is just about numbers and algebra, when in fact the merit in a mathematician who knows how to compute cubic roots quickly without a calculator is null.

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Elections!"

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Author : Sariel Har-Peled (IP: 202.141.69.75 , 202.141.69.75)
Comment:
While I agree that "an n-bit vector" sounds better, I think I have to vote D in this case. The letter n just sounds like an atomic sylabble and not as "en". I vote D, but the R camp might disagree...

Overall, it seems like the R camp won in a landslide. Go R go.

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Comment on The holy land by Sariel Har-Peled

Thank you. Therre are new pictures online now. For example, [here][1] are pictures from Yum Kipor. Did not have time to add comments/select best pictures, etc…

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