19 Apr
2008
19 Apr
'08
3:15 a.m.
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Fred lunnon wrote:
On 4/19/08, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
... (Plodding pedestrian solution follows. I have no computer algebra system worth the name, but this isn't really hard enough to require one.) ...
Hm. Perhaps Richard will call me to heel if I'm jumping to conclusions: Chao & Sun apparently managed to stretch this into a 5-page paper.
I assume Richard doesn't have the paper, else he wouldn't have needed to ask math-fun's help. But maybe Chao and Sun explained how they found the result, or discussed further generalizations, or something. -- g