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> "he sure sounds math literate"

This is the standard ESR parlor trick. Eric took several courses in math and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-eric-raym... "As a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania Raymond was immediately marked out as a potential math prodigy. Having found school insufficiently stretching for his above average talents, however, he lacked the necessary discipline or emotional maturity to cope with the demands of an undergraduate course, and after suffering a "math burnout" left without a degree."

I'd put my money on phk. Every. Time.




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