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Marcus and Jürgen introduced me to the notion that the limes marks a node (corresponding to the second eigenvector?) on the Chladni plate of germany; on the southern side, the dot product (with this "barbarianism" eigenvector) has a negative value.

Lagniappe: Grund(Bläbst), Feuer am Limes (1987)

  Das große Graph war viel zu weit,
  für unsre Schnitte zu wenig Zeit.
  Versuchen wir es wieder,
  solang' man Spektren noch rechnen kann.



Not doubting that the confoederati were always destined to become Men of Culture!

Just observing that cultural boundaries might be interesting, even if the interiors might not be[0]

Should we close the Rao-Gelman thread then, or are you still working on it?

[0] no time or battery to source out a citation, there was an american (californian?) accusation that the helvetics are only capable of inventing cuckoo clocks

Edit: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2587/did-the-sw...

Edit edit: you have to admit M. Kowalski was abit trigger-happy in casting aspersions on Mr Quid? Otoh a flatlander might be blunt but also in their own way circumspect?


Being innocent of the ways of MO, I'm not going to judge sig. Quid either way.

For flatlanders, after reading https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/2015/04/11/worms-brains-and-g... I now worry that procrustean restriction to planarity could be detrimental to their neural networks.

(the 1D graphs, aka the total orders, have no expanders, but on the flip side, that's probably why prime ideals and ultrafilters are so effective?)

EDIT: On Silver's River, a few footnotes on Ez.47:

47:10 In a groysn taykh khapt men groyse fish.

47:22 anticipating Ruth/רוּת?


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