12 Nov
2009
12 Nov
'09
2:16 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
The program achieved some notoriety when a firm of toilet-paper manufacturers employed it to decorate their product. Sir Roger Penrose was not amused, and threatened to take them to court. I have no recollection of how the case was finally resolved, but it did lead at the time to a certain amount of unkind ribaldry at his expense, in connection with some rather controversial cosmological speculation.
The story: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/penrose.htm -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com