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About ErnieM

Live near Seattle, USA. neoideograms.wordpress.com

Comparing some Japanese kanji to ids

I no longer have as favorable a view of  Chinese characters/Japanese kanji as I used to.  I now think they have their strong and bright points, but are generally shot.  They are way, way too complex and just chock full … Continue reading

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some things that came up in interview

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Leibniz Had the Idea

I was thrilled the other day to see in this blog post http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/ Leibniz’s symbol for “=”:  Π From the post: “There’s Π as an equals sign instead of =, with the slightly hacky idea of having it be like … Continue reading

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