Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0201010105580.16530-100000@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: of the greeks
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:06:12 -0500
- of the greeks 2000: 2 2 2 2 5 5 5 2001: 3 23 29 2002: 2 7 11 13 2003: 2003 2004: 2 2 3 167 2005: 5 401 2006: 2 17 59 2007: 3 3 223 2008: 2 2 2 251 2009: 7 7 41 2010: 2 3 5 67 what is the point of this useless, trivial, and murderous exercise? 2002 sticks in the maw of 7 / 11/ 13. what a terrific mouth! 2003 bottoms out, what is called a "prime" as in "steak." and 2001 comes, what? close to the grain of 23, 29? better to perform the head-first luge at 80 miles an hour down a chute than to worry about the palindromic which remains only for a year. in 6009 we will be upside-down again, better not to perform downhill ski racing which last killed a world champion smashing into the machine. the ski forms its own track within acceptable bounds or boundaries. leaning against the object of the head-first luge, one comes to the conclusion that factoring might not have been useless after all. "every sport has its rules and playing field; every equation has its proper moment and solution. if i were younger, alcibiades, i would attempt one or the other, but certainly not both." - apollonius of rhodes. _