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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Religious Game

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:23 am

The 132 hexads  in yesterday's "Small Shapes" post suggest a look at . . .

From a biography of Aviezri Fraenkel in the above
2001 issue of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

"As a scientist, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in mathematics.
As a religious man, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in Jewish knowledge
and heritage.

In 1962, during his stay in Minneapolis, while thinking
and discussing with a friend how computers could help
to advance Judaic studies, Aviezri conceived a very
original idea based on information retrieval, which
eventually became the unique Responsa Project,
known and used by the entire Jewish world."


I do not know what I  was doing on the above publication date —
May 18, 2000 — but the following note from earlier that year
seems relevant to more-recent remarks here.

Bucharest* Synchronology Check

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:32 am

From a motion picture filmed in Bucharest —

Meanwhile, in this  journal . . .

* See the previous post.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

The Strong Law of Small Shapes*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 9:52 am

Two examples:

The above note led to a letter from John H. Conway, which in turn
led to the following . . .

'Dreaming Jewels' from October 10, 1985

* The title refers to a well-known 1988 article by Richard K. Guy.

   A shape from the date of Guy's reported death

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Zero Dark AA

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:30 am

We all know the song.” 

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Zero Dark Nine:

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:09 am

The Crosswicks Curse Continues . . .

"There is  such a thing as geometry."

— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

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