From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OT: equality (was Grammar)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:02:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007281902.52392.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
\startquotation
Near Göttingen are two hills that are called Die Gleichen --``The Equals''.
They were no doubt given this name because, when viewed from a certain angle,
they look almost identical. It is reported that David Hilbert used to ask his
students why these hills were so called. None of the obvious answers like
``equal height'' or ``equal shape'' satisfied this great scholar, who was a
stickler for exactness. Finally he would give the answer himself: ``Because
they are equal distances apart from one another.''
\stopquotation
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2010-07-28 17:02 Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2010-07-28 17:07 ` OT: OT (was OT: equality (was Grammar)) Matija Šuklje
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