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The paper doesn't make any sense without the title: "Can n^2 + 1 unit equilateral triangles cover an equilateral triangle of side >n, say n+\epsilon?"
by Pinckney 11y ago
The paper doesn't make any sense without the title:
"Can n^2 + 1 unit equilateral triangles cover an equilateral triangle of side >n, say n+\epsilon?"
- acadien 11y agoAlso why didn't the article include both of the figures? It can all be found here for those interested; http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf
- pron 11y agoToo long.
- flashman 11y agoAh, this is like cheating on a compression test by encoding information in the filename.
- raverbashing 11y agoOr splitting it into several files
- rahimnathwani 11y agohttp://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php
- Lorento 11y agoThis is a fascinating story about a smug smarty pants being outsmarted!
- Sarkie 11y agoGreat reference!
- anigbrowl 11y agoYeah, leaving that out of the article makes the whole thing meaningless and pretentious. Frankly I'm surprised at the restraint shown by the editors.
- Schiphol 11y agoYet the title is not the authors'. Soifer [explains](http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf): >John Conway and I accepted the “filler”, and in the January 2005 issue our paper [12] was published. The Monthly, however, invented the title without any consultation with the authors, and added our title to the body of the article! (p. 31, my emphasis)
- robinhouston 11y agoThe above is the authors’ title. The editors invented a new title, and moved the authors’ title into the body of the article.
- Schiphol 11y agoOf course. "Our" title. Thanks, I stand corrected.
- Aardwolf 11y agoHa, so the paper is breaking the "Betteridge's law of headlines" :)