On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day Wacek,
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:49:24 +0100
Wacek Kusnierczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[....]
there is, in principle, no problem in having a high-level language
perform the computation in a logically consistent way.
Is this now supposed to be a "Radio Eriwan" joke?
[snip]
Classical Radio Eriwan stuff, and I thought this class of jokes have
died out.....
Evidently there are a few diehards still out there. From this
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=55535
thread:
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[Question:] Can the gamma function be used in combinatorics?
[Answer:] As Radio Eriwan would have said "In principle, yes", because it
interpolates the factorial.
But what does it mean to throw a dice with pi sides sqrt(15) times ?
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:-)
Chuck
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