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Posted 03 June 2008 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2π better than π?

I just came across Bob Palais’ article from 2001, entitled Pi is wrong! He makes some very interesting points; however the notation he has chosen is rather unfortunate. The definition of his three-legged ‘2π’ is given as: \def \newpi{{\pi\mskip -7.8 mu \pi}} This, when rendered by pdfLaTeX, gives: Zoomed in, we can see the problems [...]

Posted 21 January 2008 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The aftershock that wasn’t

From the Herald’s ‘Civil defence not worried by Gisborne aftershock’: GNS Science said it was not classed as an aftershock So why was the word ‘aftershock’ in the title? This seems to be the latest in a series of articles in the Herald attempting to capitalize on the aftermath of the Gisborne earthquake. The Richter-scale [...]

Posted 26 December 2007 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,