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Lenstra? Is this still the cryptography mathmatics?
Just ask, I'm sure most people would give you the encryption key, no math involved. Its all about modifying preciuos methods for better specific results anyways.

Can you please tell me what you think about my journal entry.
Thanks.

Oh, I believe you CAN eat a bicycle; I'm just wondering, well, you know...why. Not that there's anything wrong with that!!

If I can get your blessing for at least an A- in algebra next quarter, I will fully support your bicycle endeavor.

The people who have eaten entire cars and the like have cut them up into rounded chunks the size of a large BB with a blow torch. The advantage of this approach is that you can use the torch to fire polish off the sharp edges.

There is never enough fiber in one's diet -
so I recommend a carbon-fiber bike, like a Trek OCLV, for example. And of course there are all kinds of accessories made of said compound: handlebars, cranks, seats, seat posts, forks, wheels, but sooner or later you're going to have to deal with the chain. You could do it sword-swallower style. Oh - and the bike will be very expensive - carbon fiber may be easier to digest than aluminum or steel, but it's pricey!!!
Good luck.

Oh, and you will probably die.

[Edited on May 04, 2003]

TROGDOR!!!!!!

Al, I have an ancient Pfaff 130 that's in need of a new belt and a tuneup, but is otherwise in good shape. if you're interested, perhaps we could work out a deal.

Then what are you talking about? That gif is totally a 3-space generated image. Just give me 3 functions (for x,y,z direction) of 2 variables, and some time dependance and I'll hook it up yo.

You should check out my latest profile pic, it's pretty cool.

everything

How can you list Alien Ressurection and not the original classic ALIEN?

WHAT DO YOU THINK??

-ELVIS-

Okay, allow me to qualify that... math books for the intelligent layman. Someone once recommended this 'slim little volume' written by... the German fellow who came up with proofs and what not of a non-euc. type roughly around the same time as some Russian fellow. Basically, I mean books wherein I can educate myself without having to put myself through 300-level math courses. No hurries, if you think of something post me a note. It's not like my stack of current reads isn't eight books high or something.

Often?

Ohhhh wooooah lonesome meeeeeee....

Yo - two words: Mathematica Quicktime Export, ok 3 words.

Seriously, the fuckin Bull Shit if you're a math-multi-media-geek-tryin-to-finish-your-thesis-and-make-it-look-cool-so-noone-asks-you-shit-cause-you-don't-know-dick.

I got B.Sc. in math, so everyone I know thinks I know math. But you obviously know much more than I ever did. It's upsetting.

Math limerick:
A Mathematician named Hall
Had an octohedronal ball.
The square of its weight
plus his pecker, times eight
is his phone number. Give him a call.

Most uncomfortable sexplace: airplane lavatory.

Al, you are the coolest person ever.

(read aloud)
Did you hear that some US troops were inspecting a school in Iraq for chem weapons and the like. Yea, they found rullers, calculators, protractors, pencils, all kinds of shit! Pres. Bush said this is huge because they've finally found Iraq's weapons of math instruction.

Haa haa, Fuckin A I'm lame!

I have a math degree... and when I was in college, there were no good looking women in the math classes. None. And no cool chicks either. Except for this one girl who drank a Sharps in class everyday. I think she just liked opening it and having all the other math nerds look at her. She wasn't good looking but I still chubbed up sometimes because she was the ONLY thing to look at (except when I drew nipples on a sine wave). We also used to put formulae into our graphing calculators to see who could make a graph that looked like a vagina. I usually won.

And the Trogdor comes in the....nniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!!!

Alright, I see what you're saying. What you call pseudoscience (I presume you mean astrology primarily, perhaps the Kabalah, and other occult thought-systems) is most definately bad science, in the sense that you can't really apply say, the Scientific Method to it. But that doesn't mean it's a bad thing; in fact I think astrology is a system based on intuitive or subjective observation versus objective or impersonal observation. A repetition of the same experiment astrologically would tend to produce different results for any person conducting it and even different results based on the time and/or place that same person followed the same set of steps. But that's part of it's value, it serves the same purpose as religion often does; giving personal meaning to an impersonal world.

I'm actually thinking about doing an anthropological
analysis of the Tarot, but it's difficult to determine an approach (emic or etic) so it'll take me awhile to get to it, but I have a theory that it'd make for a really interesting Master's Thesis, if I were to go back to school at some point.

I'm not sure I understand the difference between non-Euclidian and Euclidian, as I was told, they're essentially contradictory, but the person who told me about it was a philospher, not a mathematician, so her understanding of it probably wasn't the same as you'd have. Her argument was largely existential: in standard geometry we're taught that parallel lines never intersect and alot of life is built around such precepts so along comes non-Euclidian geometry which says that they may in fact meet, and what impact does that have on the nature of reality.

I'm curious how quantum laws change depending on scale, is it in a sense, the matter of perception? The only example I can think of would be the 'flatness' of the Earth, and how humans at one time thought it flat until they gained enough perspective to see that it is fact round, and then not just round but spherical.

Right, so thanks for the response at any rate, it was more allong the well-reasoned lines I was hoping to hear. I'm always looking for intelligent input, because I've had some very strange experiences with occult knowledge which really turned my head around from what I was always taught in science-based university courses which is frustrating on some levels. It just seems that certain oughtn't be able to exist because they don't appear to have a rational explanation. Yet they do exist. In some way.