Asimov: Warren, I don't seem to have received the original message, at least not recently. Can you please state what is is you are responding to?

-- http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/private/math-fun/2011-September/... "Ruminations on negative genus" posted by David Wilson --Asimov also pointed out "It is not correct that 2 - 2g is the number of handles. Rather, g is the number of handles (added to a sphere to get a surface of genus g)." Right, sorry, I mis-spoke re handles (which doesn't matter)