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A cursory scan of their twitter account shows that it's the latter.
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
A cursory scan of their twitter account shows that it's the latter.
- dandanua 6y agoAlso they reposted the story wrong, assuming cans were short.
- kemayo 6y agoThe tweet-author being the original letter-recipient is not necessarily inconsistent with them also having forgotten exactly what they suggested 35 years ago and just substituting in a general sense of what current cat food cans are like. Particularly since they'd be, you know, 84.
- Zancarius 6y agoI feel kind of stupid reading this since I sometimes (often?) forget the exact details of things I've written just 3.5 days ago (!).
- CrazyStat 6y agoWhat makes you say that? I skimmed through a couple pages of tweets and it seems consistent with the twitter account belonging to Farlow. Somewhat surprising for an 84-year-old math professor to have an active twitter account, but not out of the question.
- CrazyStat 6y agoStrong evidence that the account is indeed Farlow: the profile links to a pinterest board [1] which is listed by the NCTM [2] as being run by Farlow. [1] pinterest.com/mathematicsprof [2] https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIt would be a strong evidence if the linking were the opposite way. If I link to the potus piterest page from my twitter page, it would not mean anything.
- CrazyStat 6y ago> if the linking were the opposite way. the linking goes both ways: the pinterest page also points to the @mathematicsprof twitter handle.