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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by Buge on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:23PM (#23138625)
How are rose and draw related? Is it that people sometimes draw pictures of roses?
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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by alanbernstein on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:06AM (#23138820)
In my mind, it was obvious that I was thinking of this: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rose.html. Clearly I should have mentioned that. It's the type of shape drawn by a spirograph, a pen-rose.
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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by chii on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:17AM (#23138859)
penrose is the name of a famous mathematician/logician, so it's a double entendre on both it being for drawing (the pen and the rose), as well as it being for maths.
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