An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (2005)

Re:An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flip... by cecilpl on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:28PM (#11739730)

This post was interesting, though less interesting than I expected based on the title.

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Re:An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flip... by dang on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:02PM (#11740051)

We changed the title to the subtitle for obvious reasons.

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Re:An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flip... by dragonwriter on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:35PM (#11740335)

Is that really better? On the one hand, it makes it more specific what the example domain is ("mattress flipping" vs. "the bedroom"), on the other, it makes it less specific what its being used as an example of ("mathematics" vs. "group theory".)

It seems to me that the change is a net loss in terms of useful information about whether this is something you want to click through to.

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Re:An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flip... by dang on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:46PM (#11740427)

Ok, we replaced 'curious mathematics' with 'group theory'.

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