Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by flashman on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:12AM
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Ah, this is like cheating on a compression test by encoding information in the filename.
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by rahimnathwani on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:48AM
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Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by Lorento on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:38AM
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This is a fascinating story about a smug smarty pants being outsmarted!
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by raverbashing on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:56AM
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Or splitting it into several files
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by Sarkie on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:52AM
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Great reference!
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by acadien on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:06AM
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Also why didn't the article include both of the figures? It can all be found here for those interested;
http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by pron on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:56AM
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Too long.
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by Schiphol on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:53AM
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Yet the title is not the authors'. Soifer [explains](http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf):
>John Conway and I accepted the “filler”, and in the January 2005 issue our paper [12] was published. The Monthly, however, invented the title without any consultation with the authors, and added our title to the body of the article! (p. 31, my emphasis)
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by robinhouston on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:04AM
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The above is the authors’ title. The editors invented a new title, and moved the authors’ title into the body of the article.
Re:The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
by Schiphol on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:07AM
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Of course. "Our" title. Thanks, I stand corrected.
"Can n^2 + 1 unit equilateral triangles cover an equilateral triangle of side >n, say n+\epsilon?"