Timeline for Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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| May 11, 2011 at 12:14 | comment | added | Rasmus | That's possible. The google result shocked me. ;) | |
| May 10, 2011 at 21:42 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Enter these four terms into Google: straight line shortest two | |
| May 10, 2011 at 21:41 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Seems to me you're trying to make it fit into the conventions used by mathematicians, not shared by others. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 20:29 | comment | added | Rasmus | This is entirely subjective, but to me this does not feel like the way it's normally heard. Maybe "the shortest way"? | |
| May 10, 2011 at 14:58 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @Rasmus: I was initially uncertain whether to take your question seriously. But I find some answers to the original question that seem to construe the question in an altogether different way from what appears to me to have been intended. I thought "colloquial catchy statements" meant things that ordinary non-mathematicians would say, giving words the meanings they normally have in the usages of non-mathematicians. My answer here is verbatim the way it's normally heard. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 8:11 | comment | added | Rasmus | How can a line be a distance? | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 2:44 | history | answered | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |