On 2013-01-26, at 1:59 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I had to look it up of course. Some of it is still funny. Here is Knuth: > > ``According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the > potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26, or > 2.263348517438173216473 mm. A standardization in terms of the wavelength of > the red line of the emission spectrum of Cadmium is also given, which if the > 1927 definition of the Angstrom is taken for the value of that wavelength, > would equal 2.263347539605392 mm.[1]''
Even one for our resident Professor Emeritus of English Literature… :) "Whon thot Aprille swithin potrzebie, "The burgid prillie gives one heebie-jeebie. - From Mad version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
