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- From: antennae@gn.apc.org
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Detecting crackpots - for laymen?
- Message-ID: <1541700007@gn.apc.org>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:41:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: gn.UUCP!antennae Nov 21 22:41:00 1992
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- Thanks for the long and interesting reply to my original posting.
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- I see that a mathematician has taken up the cudgels on behalf of
- Prof Abian on the vexed question of whether 1/(z + 2z + 3z^2) is
- unequal to 1/(3z^2 + 2z + z) - I'm not sure that I've remembered
- this correctly - and asserts that Abian is in fact correct.
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- Someone should certainly have the courage to accept his wager.
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- Indra
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