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Re: What is the average number of errors per 100 pages of a math book?
Posted:
Dec 10, 2012 8:26 AM
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> On Dec 9, 1:28 pm, Arturo Magidin
> <magi...@member.ams.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 9, 2012 9:50:31 AM UTC-6,
> Victor Porton wrote:
> > > Arturo Magidin wrote:
> >
> > > > On Saturday, December 8, 2012 7:18:03 AM UTC-6,
> Victor Porton wrote:
> >
> > > >> Tonic...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > >> > On Friday, December 7, 2012 8:47:11 PM
> UTC+2, Victor Porton wrote:
> >
> > > >> >> What is the average number of errors per
> 100 pages of a math book?
> >
> > > >> > Besides agreeing compeltely with Arturo's
> comment, the question here
> >
> > > >> > could be: why are you interested? Are you
> trying to find out whether
> >
> > > >> > you
> >
> > > >> > make the cut or what?
> >
> > > >> I try to estimate whether my draft book is
> good in this respect compared
> >
> > > >> with other authors.
> >
> > > > It's a very ignorant question, and shows again
> that you have a completely
> >
> > > > skewed and incorrect view of the subject
> (despite believing that you have
> >
> > > > made substantial contributions that will garner
> you great prizes and
> >
> > > > unending praise).
> >
> > > > A single error in hundreds of pages can doom
> the entire endeavor. Or a
> >
> > > It would be true for a book dedicated to a single
> theorem with long proof.
> >
> > > It's not the case for my book.
> >
> > Nonsense. It doesn't have to be a single theorem in
> order for the entire edifice to be doomed by a single
> error. Yet again, you demonstrate quite aptly that
> you have no clue.
> >
> > I would say "Thanks for trying", but we both know
> it would be insincere.
> >
> > --
> > Arturo Magidin
> Musatov.in+MeAmI.org File Type (.ORG file type)
> Signed, Martin
> Musatov, .ORG developer and creator of the .ORG
> Musatov MeAmI.org File
> Type THANKS FOR TRYING. THE CROSS DIVISION BEGIN.
Asshole: they are referring to errors in a book; not to errors of birth.
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