Stories from the land of Rob » meme http://blog.floopily.org Fri, 28 May 2010 15:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Damn Memes http://blog.floopily.org/2008/11/13/damn-memes/ http://blog.floopily.org/2008/11/13/damn-memes/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:15:10 +0000 robtaylor http://blog.floopily.org/2008/11/13/damn-memes/ * Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Result “From PS we can determine P uniquely; in fact, we can obtain the original tableau P from PS, by applying exactly the same algorithm – but reversing the order and the roles of italic and regular type, since PS is a dual tableau.”

I didn’t cheat, this really was the closest book to me. Extra marks if you can guess what it was…

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