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The Duel: A curious mathematical puzzle

January 20, 2010

Captain Galaxy and Commander Glarcon are locked in mortal combat.   Each mans a battle tank armed with N photonic missiles which move at the speed of light.   They move toward each other at constant velocity=v on a 1-dimensional track, unable to stop or reverse direction.  Assume v << c.  The probability of scoring a [...]

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Lost in Translation

July 14, 2006

In the last installment I looked at the way the ODF Add-in for Word 2007 integrates into the Word UI. Now let’s drill down into an actual conversion and see what fidelity we get.
I downloaded the code from SourceForce and installed on a machine running the Office 2007 beta 2. The Add-in pre-reqs the .NET [...]

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Ptolemy IV, Philopator

January 15, 2006

The word is “deaccession”, a fancy way of saying a museum is selling off a portion of its collection. This can happen for many reasons. For example, the museum may have received a bequest that was outside the parameters of its collection, it may have acquired items in the past that are now [...]

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