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Re: What is the average number of errors per 100 pages of a math book?
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Dec 10, 2012 11:43 AM
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"Arturo Magidin" <magidin@member.ams.org> wrote in message
news:181ad962-dca1-4f0c-b57a-9ba75ef59315@googlegroups.com...
> On Sunday, December 9, 2012 9:50:31 AM UTC-6, Victor Porton wrote:
>> Arturo Magidin wrote:
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>> > On Saturday, December 8, 2012 7:18:03 AM UTC-6, Victor Porton wrote:
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>> >> Tonicopm@yahoo.com wrote:
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>> >> > On Friday, December 7, 2012 8:47:11 PM UTC+2, Victor Porton wrote:
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>> >> >> What is the average number of errors per 100 pages of a math book?
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>> >> > Besides agreeing compeltely with Arturo's comment, the question
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>> >> > could be: why are you interested? Are you trying to find out
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>> >> I try to estimate whether my draft book is good in this respect
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>> > It's a very ignorant question, and shows again that you have a
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>> > skewed and incorrect view of the subject (despite believing that you
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>> > made substantial contributions that will garner you great prizes and
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>> > unending praise).
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>> > A single error in hundreds of pages can doom the entire endeavor. Or a
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>> It would be true for a book dedicated to a single theorem with long
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>> It's not the case for my book.
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> 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.
and you add nothing to the solution, like a tiny gree cut worm on a hot
street, you wriggle round.
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> I would say "Thanks for trying", but we both know it would be insincere.
you have failed to inflame anyone, as all of your posts are FOS and gay,
not-Arturo.
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> Arturo Magidin
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