Yes, now I'm getting loads of hits, with and w/o string quotes. I have to believe Google is fiddling with the searchware as we speak. I'm sending this from Roundcube because GMail has gone absolutely nuts. I try to click on Send, and it jumps out of the way. The text jumps up and down on alternate keystrokes. I try to paste in some text, and it pastes in an IMAGE, which it then won't send. I try to undo pasting the image and it goes into a loop. Sell your stock. --rwg On 2015-04-28 16:30, Dan Asimov wrote:
I tried googling on the quote below, and the treatise on mechanics was the top Google hit, which was on the exact page of the quote when I clicked on it (with or without the "[AN]").
--Dan
On Apr 28, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell famously wrote an accidental poem which I've never seen correctly quoted:
Gack, not even by me!
"Hence no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into [AN] horizontal line which is accurately straight" http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj4g9;view=1up;seq=74 He hastily deleted it from future editions.
of http://books.google.com/books/about/An_Elementary_Treatise_on_Mechanics.html...
--rwg
But even with the "an" correction, Google gets zero hits. Not even the above URL to the original. Bad OCR? --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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