Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick
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- Subject: [mg78552] Re: [mg78498] Re: Re: problem with Pick
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 05:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 3, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > On 3 Jul 2007, at 19:24, J=E1nos wrote: > >> On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: >> >>> >>> On 1 Jul 2007, at 16:31, Chris Chiasson wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 29, 4:40 am, J=3DE1nos <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote: >>>>> Like barbers who are shaving themselves... :) >>>>> >>>>> J=3DE1nos >>>>> P.S. I am hearing someone turning slowly in his grave.... >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:26 AM, DrMajorBob wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> That's entirely contrary to the documentation, which says that >>>>>> Pick >>>>>> "picks >>>>>> out those ELEMENTS of list for which the corresponding ELEMENT of >>>>>> sel is >>>>>> True." >>>>> >>>>>> How is a list its own ELEMENT, if English words mean anything? >>>>> >>>>>> Bobby >>>> >>>> LOL >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Actually, there is nothing at all unusual about barbers shaving >>> themselves. I am sure lots of barbers do it. Russell's illustration >>> (of a variant of his paradox) was about a barber who "shaved >>> everyone >>> in town who did not shave himself". It would take more than all the >>> resourcefulness of Figoro, the barber of Seville, to relate this to >> >> Figaro >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figaro >> >> J=E1nos >> >> > > Congratulations! My imperfect keyboard control gave your chance > > La vendetta, oh la vendetta > e un piacer serbato ai saggi, > l'obliar l'onte, gli oltraggi > e bassezza, e ognor vilta. > > ... > Se tutto il codice dovessi volgere, > se tutto l'indice dovessi leggere, > con un equivoco, con un sinonimo, > qualche garbuglio si trovera. > > (Le Nozze Di Fiagaro, Atto 1, Bartolo's Vendetta Aria). > > Andrzej Kozlowski Andrzej, you are a wonderful person, although both of us know that it is not just your keyboard control that is imperfect :) For example: "...Figoro, the barber of Seville,...". Well, the barber of Sevilha - as the Spanish would say - was Bartolo, according to Beaumarchais :) J=E1nos ---------------------------------------------------------- "A cyber virgin has never had intercourse outside of virtual reality, whereas a virtual virgin has never had intercourse with a real person even in virtual reality" -Ray Kurzweil - "The age of spiritual machines"
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