New stuff discovered, invented, posted. posted by allan at 7:38 AM on April 21, 2005
mcgraw? Dat you? posted by goatdog at 7:48 AM on April 21, 2005
slightly off topic, but the logic thing made me wonder: How is 'map' defined for purposes of the 4-color theorem? posted by bashos_frog at 7:57 AM on April 21, 2005
bashos_frog, I'm not a graph theorist, but I think that for the 4-color theorem, a map is defined as a planar graph (a graph you can draw on a piece of paper without having any edges cross). The countries are represented as vertices on the graph, and if two countries share a border, then they have an edge between them. The graph (map) is 4-colorable if you can color each vertex so that no edge has both endpoints of the same color.
Oh, and cool post mcgraw dfowler. posted by driveler at 8:17 AM on April 21, 2005
Those aren't custom brass knuckles. They are clearly identified
as paperweights, meat tenderizers and ice picks :-) posted by the Real Dan at 10:07 AM on April 21, 2005
In case anyone's wondering, no, 'coq' really isn't the worst name ever for a computer language -- there's always this one. posted by felix at 10:12 AM on April 21, 2005
The schemes that our cousin genes have come up with are amazing. Of course, I'm sure they'd think us equally odd (if they had evolved sentient replication machines and were able to think, that is).
(posted on behalf of alasdair's genome) posted by alasdair at 10:59 AM on April 21, 2005
fivefreshfish spreading smiles : )
you just gave a great askmefi answer too, fff! greets! posted by dfowler at 11:05 AM on April 21, 2005
Well, flagging it would waste Matt's time so I'll just yell 'You won't get away with this dfowler, you nincompoop!' posted by dfowler at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2005
posted by allan at 7:38 AM on April 21, 2005