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synchcola ([personal profile] synchcola) wrote2007-11-21 09:14 pm
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huh?

{1 \over \sqrt{2 \pi}} \sum_{j=-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-j^2/2} = 1.0000000053505759+


why is this approximation so good?

ohwait, poisson summation! crap!

*dives for cover*

i am TOTALLY going to have to apologize to dr. vogt for complaining about the accuracy of that.

extreme!

this icon is wonderful and i want it.
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[identity profile] garran.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
I know that icon! But through whom...?


-Andy H.

[identity profile] garran.livejournal.com 2007-11-23 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
P.S. Your professor's name reminds me that in Samuel R. Delany's partial autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water, he relates that the first fan letter he ever received upon the publication of The Jewels of Aptor was one "unmasking" him as a pseudonym for A.E. Van Vogt. The stated reasons were two-fold:

1. Samuel Delany has 'slan' in it.
2. The letter-writer was familiar with every SF writer then working, and had never heard of Delany before.


-Andy H.
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