porges

$ tail randu.txt 134633675 1893599841 1559961379 907304297 2141591611 388843697 238606867 79531577 477211307 1

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 [...]

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 [...]