r.i.p Chief...

My mom listened to the original broadcast [she was 14 at the time]. As so many did she tuned in late, said to herself , ‘What’s this?’, looked at the radio listings, saw something like ‘The Mercury Theater presents an adaptation of H.G.Wells ‘War of the Worlds’...’ and then went on with her life.

What sport do you play with a wombat?

And I have already memorized all its digits.

Trial division, that is, dividing by every divisor less than the square root of the number , is mind-boggingly prohibitive for a number of this size. They use a version of the ‘Lucas-Lehmer test’ which works only for these Mersenne numbers.

Trial division, that is, dividing by every divisor less than the square root of the number , is mind-boggingly prohibitive for a number of this size. They use a version of the ‘Lucas-Lehmer test’ which works only for these Mersenne numbers.

Trial division, that is, dividing by every divisor less than the square root of the number , is mind-boggingly prohibitive for a number of this size. They use a version of the ‘Lucas-Lehmer test’ which works only for these Mersenne numbers.

Well, Moore certainly thinks of the children...

song cue:

I can remember reading years ago that he was the longest surviving ALS case in the UK, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the longest lived in the world.

Apologies if this has been posted:

Even in a Paul Mccartney and Wings video, ...

Apologies if this is already posted:

I think I read John of Gaunt is called by genealogists ‘the ancestor of the English middle class’ because of his many descendants . Another fun fact: Both Lewis Carroll and “Alice” (Liddell) descend from him.

Yes, and the lack of attention that remark generated convinced me that soon Ann Coulter will have to resort to publicly soiling herself to create the level of publicity she craves.

(not easy to give a robot cancer)

That is what the articles linked to seem to suggest: “The bias persists but decreases as the numbers get larger.”

Is there any relation here to Stephen Fry’s novel (also “Making History”) which is also about changing the present through time travel? It seems too coincidental...

Wasn’t she Sinclair Lewis’ model for Sister Sharon Falconer in ‘Elmer Gantry’?