Pappu Bahry ([info]pappubahry) wrote,
@ 2009-08-15 13:11:00
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Entry tags:language, uni (academic)

Not my PAIN poem
I imagine that sometime in 1915, GH Hardy said:


If I should die, think only this of me,
That there's some corner of a finite field
That is forever England.

Multiplication table of the field with two elements


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(Anonymous)
2009-08-15 03:46 pm UTC (link)
Very good Dave. I do love both GH Hardy and finite field jokes.

~Martin

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[info]pappubahry
2009-08-16 12:06 am UTC (link)
I was pretty happy with this. No-one else has thought of "some corner of a finite field" before. What other finite field jokes are there?

Dodgers-DBacks coverage just started. The host has an excruciatingly slow voice. I hope he's not the main game caller....

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(Anonymous)
2009-08-16 03:03 pm UTC (link)
The classic finite field joke is:

Q: Why can't you grow wheat in Z/6Z?
A: Because it's not a field.

Well maybe that's a finite ring joke but you get the idea.

Just thinking about dbacks commentators drives me mad so I guess I'll have to write a blog post about it.

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