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Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone
ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists, it is the number-one resource for the latest scientific results. Most researchers publish their papers on arXiv before they are published in a 'normal' journal. A famous example is Grisha Perelman, who published his award-winning paper exclusively on arXiv."
It's half-a-million. CmdrTaco doesn't deal with such large numbers very often.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
Guess that's why they call it linguistics.. no wait.. you're being sarcastic right?
If it's a science publication, should it have hit a kilometer-stone instead of a milestone?
But the question we are all asking ourselves is
Who got the first post?
The answer is Exact Black String Solutions in Three Dimensions by James H. Horne and Gary T. Horowitz
Slightly better than the "Fkrst Pist" attempts on Slashdot!
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Wow, that's a lot of ten-thousands of papers!
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
Ah, so you're working in the oral tradition, then?
One swallow does not a fellatrix make