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Re: "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart
Posted:
Aug 17, 2009 5:53 PM
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On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Groves wrote:
> Paul, thanks for pointing out this problem with the link. I had
> wondered why the link didn't work because I had visited the website
> with that particular address at the time I wrote that post.
> I assumed that if putting a period at the end of a link would cause
> no problems, then there should be no problems with commas at the end.
> But I was wrong. I'm sorry that this problem happened, and I thank
> you for this clarification.
Even better is to enclose URLs in <>, as in <http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl/MathAnim.html
>. Most mail browsers deal with this correctly and present a live,
functioning link. And people who don't use such a mail browser are
likely to be savvy enough to know how to cut and paste the URL
correctly.
--Lou Talman
Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
<http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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