Why do you believe that the US has the best education system in the world? It may be true that many (but very far from all) top scientists work at universities in the US, but this is mostly due to the fact that leading US universities have plenty of money and are good at recruiting foreign scientists. This fact has very little to do with the quality of the _education system_.
I would answer "a" - neutrinos have a non-zero rest mass but are _not_ travelling at c
It will be very interesting to see if these preliminary results turn out to be true. A very exciting story!
Finally there is some good indications that neutrinos do have mass. This is very exciting news -- not quite as exciting as if somefound found the Higgs particle, but close.
I coulnd't find any information on their website though concerning how big the mass of the neutrinos is. A couple of eV, I would guess.
It will interesting to see the results.
(Background: Many people have though that neutrinos make up a large part of the so called "dark matter" in the universe.)
All the talk about FORTRAN made be remember a funny story. It happened before my time but there was a FORTRAN compiler on an old PDP that wasn't all that fuzzy.
Once a really obscure bug showed up in a big (numerical simulation) program. All of a sudden the program started to act as it couldn't count anymore. Expressions such as x+y were evaluated to something it shouldn't have been... After quite some time the bug was found. It turned out that somewhere a function was called with a literal 3 as one of the arguments. Inside the function the corresponding variable was set to 4. After that the computer was acting as if 3==4!
Oooh, I remember back in 1988 or so when I worked during the summers at a research instituite (simulation of metal rolling) and wrote a sort of GUI interface to one of the simulation programs. In FORTRAN of course... There was a package somthing similar to curses that could do multiple "windows" and "menus". Everything sitting on top of DOS. Those were the days!
Well, I'm a mathematician, and I could easily think of lots of mathematical problems that would be far more interesting to try to attack with distributed computing than the Collatz conjecture.
The Collatz conjecture is very artificial and
not many mathematicians would be that interested in finding a counterexample. A proof on the other hand could be interesting (depending on whether it contains new ideas that can be generalized).
LaTeX has nothing to do with XML. LaTeX is a document preparing system based on the typesetting engine TeX which was developed in the 80s by Donald Knuth (who else). XML is a much more recent innovation.
Phonetic spelling is really a good thing, but it most definately cannot replace traditional spelling. Using phonetic spelling would for example mean that Chinese from different parts of the country no longer could read each others' texts. It would also mean that British Englih, U.S. English, Australian English etc etc would all be spelt differently. Not very convenient,
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So what additional functionality does SOT Office offer over Open Office?
I had a quick look at their web site and I couldn't find anything about this.
Why do you believe that the US has the best education system in the world? It may be true that many (but very far from all) top scientists work at universities in the US, but this is mostly due to the fact that leading US universities have plenty of money and are good at recruiting foreign scientists. This fact has very little to do with the quality of the _education system_.
With that "logic", photons would have mass too, right?
With that "logic", photons would have mass to, right?
I would answer "a" - neutrinos have a non-zero rest mass but are _not_ travelling at c
It will be very interesting to see if these preliminary results turn out to be true. A very exciting story!
Finally there is some good indications that neutrinos do have mass. This is very exciting news -- not quite as exciting as if somefound found the Higgs particle, but close. I coulnd't find any information on their website though concerning how big the mass of the neutrinos is. A couple of eV, I would guess. It will interesting to see the results. (Background: Many people have though that neutrinos make up a large part of the so called "dark matter" in the universe.)
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Those watermelons looked more like cubical to me. There wouldn't be much point in buying a square watermelon...
All the talk about FORTRAN made be remember a funny story. It happened before my time but there was a FORTRAN compiler on an old PDP that wasn't all that fuzzy. Once a really obscure bug showed up in a big (numerical simulation) program. All of a sudden the program started to act as it couldn't count anymore. Expressions such as x+y were evaluated to something it shouldn't have been... After quite some time the bug was found. It turned out that somewhere a function was called with a literal 3 as one of the arguments. Inside the function the corresponding variable was set to 4. After that the computer was acting as if 3==4!
Oooh, I remember back in 1988 or so when I worked during the summers at a research instituite (simulation of metal rolling) and wrote a sort of GUI interface to one of the simulation programs. In FORTRAN of course... There was a package somthing similar to curses that could do multiple "windows" and "menus". Everything sitting on top of DOS. Those were the days!
Well, I'm a mathematician, and I could easily think of lots of mathematical problems that would be far more interesting to try to attack with distributed computing than the Collatz conjecture. The Collatz conjecture is very artificial and not many mathematicians would be that interested in finding a counterexample. A proof on the other hand could be interesting (depending on whether it contains new ideas that can be generalized).
LaTeX has nothing to do with XML. LaTeX is a document preparing system based on the typesetting engine TeX which was developed in the 80s by Donald Knuth (who else). XML is a much more recent innovation.
Phonetic spelling is really a good thing, but it most definately cannot replace traditional spelling. Using phonetic spelling would for example mean that Chinese from different parts of the country no longer could read each others' texts. It would also mean that British Englih, U.S. English, Australian English etc etc would all be spelt differently. Not very convenient,