Peter Hayes

Maths, movies, law and literature, life, love and laughter.

[Peter Hayes @PeterHayesLLB]

Anna Funder's Wifedom has been set as a school text in the UK. Happily my review of it has been reposted at Quadrant.
https://t.co/vnMvnkGLr5

[Peter Hayes @PeterHayesLLB]

@sonukg4india Calculator says -(pi^2)/16

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@sonukg4india If you stare at this diagram long enough, you'll see that the line AB is perpendicular to both of the relevant cube diagonals (by Pythagoras). That indicates it's the shortest path between them, and the distance is 1/sqrt3 units.

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So anyway Gerald Murnane is now an Officer of the Order of Australia

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@sonukg4india I get

(-1/p) (1 + 1/2 + 1/3 ... + 1/p)

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@CredoMilesX A Canticle for Leibowitz

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@Rainmaker1973 I saw him on tv once and he said he would have liked to go on to two million.

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@elladeonRH Try logging in at https://t.co/8h1mOrIX3v

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@Kristinartz According to C S Lewis, sausages.

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@InspGadgetBlogs Actually it would be Citizen Kane.

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@InspGadgetBlogs The Wrong Man

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@ATRightMovies The Party

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@dolphinsands "Absurdly overrated" from him amid the other judgments sounds almost positive.

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@AmazingPopPod Looks like an astronaut.

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@Darcy1968 Do you think that illegible might be "dear old"? Just a guess.

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@CSMFHT Hector

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@ShoupLaura @sonukg4india The question probably should have had x^2 instead of the "x" term.

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@sonukg4india I'm going to stick my neck out here and say it's impossible.

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@anne_goldgar @JSmithCricket If you haven't read Call of the Wild, it's a must.

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@MrJohnWemmick Evelyn Waugh is another glaring absence.