The Italian style tamp - Page 2

#11: Post by **werbin** » October 26th, 2009, 4:16 pm

LGB,
This is off topic, but your signature line is not quite correct.

LGB wrote:"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."~Paul Erdõs

Most everyone knows that Paul Erdõs was a mathematician who turned amphetamines into theorems. He found those more effective than coffee.

In fact, according to Wikipedia's artical on Paul Erdõs:
"His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[7] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[8] Erdős won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

October 26th, 2009, 7:26 pm

Oops! Fixed.

#13: Post by **timo888** » October 26th, 2009, 10:51 pm

hbuchtel wrote:I wish folks here would write "my hypothesis is ..."
Regards, Henry

My hypothesis is ... if the moonbeams are well distributed in the jar there is no need to tamp them.

#14: Post by **zin1953** » October 29th, 2009, 11:01 am

Yes, but can you take them home?