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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/25
Date: 1998-02-25T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d02p2$r12$3@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Feb24.113944.1@eisner



Larry Kilgallen wrote in message <1998Feb24.113944.1@eisner>...
>In article <34F28B28.6C70707@ehpt.com>, Jonas Nygren <ehsjony@ehpt.com>
writes:
>
>> I read in the news that one guy had been rewarded for coming up
>> with a proof for Fermat's theorem. He claimed that only the 100
>> top mathematicians in the world would be capable of understanding
>> his proof.
>
>Perhaps someone could explain to those of us who are less inclined
>toward math how the number who understand comes out to an even hundred :-).

The figure is exactly 100. Of course, I have a wonderful proof for this,
but, unfortunately, only the world's top 10 mathematicians would be able to
understand it!

:-)

------------ Nick Roberts
---------- Croydon, UK







  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-25  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-15  0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00       ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19  0:00         ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19  0:00             ` John English
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24  0:00                     ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24  0:00                       ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20  0:00               ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03  0:00                 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19  0:00           ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18  0:00             ` vonhend
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17  0:00             ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19  0:00               ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20  0:00                 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16  0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` nabbasi
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1998-02-18  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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