March 23, 2007
The Frog and the Fox
A story by Owen (3rd grader)
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Once there was a frog who liked to trick animals. One day a fox was walking along the river when he saw [the] frog. Frog said, "Fox, why don't you come and visit me on the water?" He was [on] his lily pad. The Fox said, "How am I supposed to visit you on the water?" The frog said coolly "why don't you walk on some lily pads?" So the fox jumped and fell and drowned and the current dragged the frog under and he drowned [too].
MORAL: Never trick somebody. It might backfire on you.
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Mathematical name of the day: Fokko du Cloux
From a page ostensibly explaining what the E8 computation is all about (I'm still confused and unworthy):
Making this into explicit algorithms was a major achievement of Fokko du Cloux.
[via graham]
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