Re: online dictionaries etc.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        I rrecently discovered the "Wikipedia" where, for the first time,
I was introduced to the concept of "surreal numbers".  I think that
surreal numbers are almost as exciting as the "hyperreal" numbers that
underlie Abraham Robinson's Non-Standard Analysis.



On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, John S. Denker wrote:

> In addition to google, another good online source is
>    http://dict.leo.org/?search=jo-jo
>
> It doesn't know about "Maxwell wheel" or "Maxwell Rad" but it
> will give you the correct translation for "das jo-jo".
>
> If you forget the URL of that resource, you can always
> find it by googling "German dictionary".
>
> You can also get there by googling "deutsches Wörterbuch"
> but -- interestingly -- "deutsches Worterbuch" does not work
> nearly so well.  Google can be very, very literal-minded.
> Even more suprisingly, dict.leo.org is ranked pretty low
> (about #25) under "englishes Wörterbuch" ... very odd.
>
> Some online dictionaries are nearly worthless, but some of
> them are pretty good.
>
> A truly remarkable one is
>    http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/
> The dictionary is broad and deep ... and authoritative, and
> just plain beautiful.  The only limitation is that is 100
> years old, so it doesn't know about yo-yos or airplanes or
> various other things.
>
> Note that it is worth downloading the free DjVu viewer plugin.
>
> (DjVu compressors are also available, some free and some not,
> in case you want to originate your own content in DjVu format.)

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