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- From: rcheng@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Raymond Cheng)
- Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
- Subject: Re: WSD: Re: Rotating Partners During Teaching
- Message-ID: <30127@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:32:03 GMT
- References: <fred-mckenzie-190193163934@k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov> <1jpvatINNih5@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: rcheng@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Raymond Cheng)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.folk-dancing, mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes:
- * Joel is one of the two best male dancers in our club. QUITE
- *PROBABLY the best (but it's a close call and depends on which of the
- *two has had more floor time at any given time.) But he's one of those
- *REALLY SCARY math oriented type people. They frighten me when they
- *get on the dance floor. They learn VERY quickly and have a great
- *learning aptitude for dancing.
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- But Mary, square dancing is quite mathematical. Did you know that
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- * relay-the-deuces is a point-symmetrical call?
- * square thru is eqiuvalent to quarter out?
- * load-the-boat is a line-symmetric call + quarter in?
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- Maybe Joel can add to this list.
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- Ray:
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- A true mathematician is one who can prove that any even number
- greater than three is a sum of two prime numbers.
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