From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EE31381F3 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D808FE0A4A; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f45.google.com (mail-wg0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB3D4E09EF for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id x12so914982wgg.0 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:27:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NlrY6RYsICDPSDss+V3Y0BieQ6qJ7PWJsR3H49GpfI8=; b=WlsNxBZxgcmOa4pcJDzwOhU/bSTrem+tfKwhdIoPafh8gRVCthT0YhiAnQqukWpbOA vr7Jc17EODxJ7/GHCWHMQYmRdid7Mly+GN4DgR8fevAGC7/qbrBFKFmPS0FHGpNVh3IJ 65Xx1+AgvHYgPbL2xgSYBHyUahMLmm/EoD6HoQ9wAfsB13zE0OzTP5TShnu1KrBBRQDZ M/0aHkX6tPewlv8Vz7nxTA3BNJqkf/nwJWKjzJJiMOM7brUNUmgSH7rhGpALy0bMwxba V/FF9BmC64trjAyYG5jzBo8jmkLDPwlNo/6Tne9+/2RPSuUwvWV4En+0dqXyOU6gwv+C x2Ow== X-Received: by 10.194.2.13 with SMTP id 13mr28775578wjq.74.1374701244442; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-138.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n7sm386693wib.1.2013.07.24.14.27.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51F04625.8050601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:24:53 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2 References: <20130724111708.447eaa91@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51EFB0A3.9070309@gmail.com> <20130724200621.GA3609@Gee-Mi-Ni.home> <87siz3r9yh.fsf@nyu.edu> <51F04380.1000909@gmail.com> <87r4en4pt1.fsf@nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <87r4en4pt1.fsf@nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 839e6c2f-8cef-4f42-9abe-427c459d5fe5 X-Archives-Hash: 7d2f90ba07ec2b4194dd30716b4a5bf9 On 24/07/2013 23:21, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> You mathematician chaps could probably resolve this one nicely for >> yourselves by treating it as just another mangle by Applied >> Mathematicians <====== joke :-) > > Careful what you joke about. The New York University comp sci dept (my > home) is part the Courant Institute that also contains the very highly > regarded NYU math department, one that *emphasizes* applied math. :-) > > allan > Oops :-) If I told you my closest colleague at work (who designs the algorithms for most of the code I maintain) has a masters in pure Mathematics - would we then at least be even? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com