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Very complicated things going on, and again too little time to write about them. I'm thoroughly caught up in LinuxWorld and Sklyarov stuff.
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Very complicated things going on, and again too little time to write about them. I'm thoroughly caught up in LinuxWorld and Sklyarov stuff.
Wow, this is fun!
The office of the Chief of Police approved our amplified sound permit, at an administrative hearing Wednesday afternoon. And everybody's making jokes about the Hall of Justice. "Hey, if you're going to the Hall of Justice, could you get me some?" "Sorry, they're all out."
The new BBCs are really popular! LWN gave us a really nice review at the top of their Distributions page this week. (But Jonathan Corbet merely says that "the version number is a long story". Hmph. I told that story to plenty of people today, plenty of times.)
I met lots of neat people.
And Dmitry Sklyarov came to the party held in his honor.
I should write something about the golden ratio, so that our version number will be a long story which is actually told somewhere. The golden ratio is just a very beautiful thing.
Here is a general question: what number is it such that when you square it, it is the same as adding A?
It's x, such that x=(1+sqrt(1+4a))/2
This number will be an integer when 1+4a is a square (because 1+4a must be odd, so if it is a square, its square root must also be odd).
Of course, that must happen infinitely often.
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