From cowan@ccil.org Sat Dec 09 12:43:03 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 9 Dec 2000 20:43:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 75198 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2000 20:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Dec 2000 20:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Dec 2000 20:43:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA08752; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:07:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:07:06 -0500 (EST) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Triple number In-Reply-To: <3A31E782.7A8E16EE@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > (2) numbers large than 3 (especially 7, 100 and 1000) are mentioned > in many Hungarian proverbs, idioms and the like, so it is hard to > imagine how anyone, even a nobleman, can fail to have heard of them; Ah, but it's essential that it be a nobleman. Anyhow, that's only half the anecdote: there are two noblemen, who have a bet on who can name the number of greatest magnitude. The first thinks for period N and names 3; the second thinks for period 2N and concedes. This anecdote was retailed by George Gamow. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter