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Re: Napoleon

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• Subject: [mg26921] Re: [mg26888] Napoleon
• From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:29:59 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Mike wrote:

> At some time over the last couple of years I remember coming across a
> notebook with a graphic which showed Napoleons march toward moscow (?). From
> memory the objective of the notebook may have been to demonstrate the use of
> graphics primitives. I can't remember where I saw this (mathsource?,
> resource library? etc).

It appears in the book _Applied Mathematica: Getting Started, Getting It
Done_ by Shaw and Tigg.  The book supplement notebook with the relevant
code is up on MathSource.

http://www.mathsource.com/MathSource/Publications/BookSupplements/ShawTigg-1993/0205-366/Chap04.nb

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P.J. Hinton
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