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Oh, I seem to have deleted it. ----------------------------- Previous blog posts: Never mind, there will be a backup in the spam filtering system, so let's just open that up and have a look. * Vertices Required For Cycles Hmm, OK, it was in the last week or so, and it has "Wirral" and * Reflex Actions "Farmer" in the subject, or in the "From" field, or something, so * The Ballad Of Bunter let's have a quick look: * Infinite Ramsey Theorem * Signal Reflection * Analogies Not Considered grep -il "Wirral.*farmer" $( find Data -type f -mtime -8 ) Harmful * Twitter Reply Vs Quote Output: Data/good_confirmed/20201209101801_0141 Tweet * Proofs To Make You Go WOW Excellent, we'll have a look at that: * Laptop Purchase Advice Received * Blow Up Your Ability ** Next Market - Saturday 10th February 2018 9.00 am - 1.00 pm Balloon * A Factlet For All OK, so it starts at 9am. No, wait ... what? February? * Anatomy Of A Hit * Sell Yourself Sell Your 2018 ?? Work * All The Letters Finding the right information ... * Being Slow To Criticise * State Machine In Real Digging a little and the mystery deepens. The email from last month Life says the same thing. * Coxeter Once Nerd Sniped Conway Oh, wait, that's the plain text section of the email, but it uses * Not Always Your Fault MIME and has an HTML section ... what does that say? * Remembering Conway * Perception Of Space And there we are ... * Parallelogram Puzzle * Back Of The Envelope COVID19 Next Market - Saturday 12th December 9.00 am - 1.00 pm * A Point Against The Axiom Of Choice Yup, the text in the HTML section bears absolutely no relation to the * In Defense Of The Axiom content of the text section. Of Choice * Journeying Home Through When the code and comments disagree ... Storm Dennis * Earth Radius Refined There is an old saying in computing: * Volume Of A Sphere * Big Oh And Relations * When code and comments disagree, * Mathematical Relations both are probably wrong. * Introducing Big Oh * Constant Differences So what do you do when the plain-text and html sections of an email * Algorithms And Sizes Of disagree? I have no answer to that, it's entirely up to you to work Instances out which section has the information you need or want. * Introducing Time Complexity Not sure what lesson(s) to take from this. * The Linear Frog * Seventy Versus One If any. 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