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Re: Re[2]: The troubles (revisited)

Jim,
I think you missed on the quote:
you wrote:
"There is no royal road to geometry"
Aristotle

(Obviously complaining about a student?!)
(The student's name was Alex?!)

I believe it was Euclid, to his Pharaoh - Ptolemy I of Egypt. No relation to
the astronomer but He was one of Alex's generals before he took the throne.
The end of his line was Cleopatra, but that's a whole other story.


Gary Karshner

St. Mary's University
San Antonio, Texas
KARSHNER@STMARYTX.EDU