A 7:10 AM obituary in the online New York Times this morning, along with
the "efficient packing" phrase in a previous (6:57 AM) post, suggests a
review . . .
Friday, April 25, 2025
Review
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
For General Fairfax* — Dogearring
Related material:
Jena Malone as the young Eleanor Arroway in "Contact" (1997) —
* See Jon Hamm as Fairfax in the previous post.
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Friday, April 11, 2025
Brick Space: The Yellow Brick* Road Now and in 2014
Now —
… and in 2014 —
* "Brick" is a term coined by R. T. Curtis that denotes any of the three
4-row 2-column arrays that form his 4-row 6-column Miracle Octad Generator.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
A Century for Gatsby
The shape of the church in today's "But Seriously" post
is not unlike the 1988 rocket shape below . . .
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png —
"Here's to efficient packing."
The rocket and chess images are from a post of November 23. 2024.
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Midnight for Heptads
The date of a Facebook photo in the previous post —
February 17, 2017 — suggests a review . . .
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Schoolgirls and Heptads
A Feb. 12 note in the "talk" section of the Wikipedia article
"Kirkman's schoolgirl problem" —
The illustration above was replaced by a new section in the article,
titled "Galois geometry."
The new section improves the article by giving it greater depth.
For related material, see Conwell Heptads in this journal
(or, more generally, Conwell) and a 1985 note citing Conwell's work.
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