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SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Went to bed with his pajamas on,
Woke up - naked - with G. H. Hardy,
Who smiled and said, "That was quite the party!"

Daily Dose

From Words Fail Me, by Patricia T. O'Conner

TOSSING

"Doubling, tripling, and quadrupling are all clear enough: a number is multiplied by two, by three, by four.  But tossing in percentages leads to trouble."

From Chapter 19, Down for the Count

Daily Dose

From The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott, introduction and notes by Ian Stewart

ABBOTT'S SOLUTION

"Abbott's solution to the problem of maintaining a stable sex ratio in Lineland is elegant and unorthodox."

From a footnote, page 119, this edition