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Uncommon Noncore

This post was suggested by Greg Gutfeld’s Sept. 4 remarks on Common Core math. Problem: What is 9 + 6 ? Here are two approaches suggested by illustrations of…

Contest

Once again, Harvard defeats Holy Cross. See also a related remark by Norman Mailer, and Plan 9 in this journal. Presumably the Holy Cross defeat will please art…

Review

See “Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate” in this journal. For greater detail, see “Seven is Heaven” and “Eight is a Gate” separately.

Seven*

Google News at 7: * The title refers to Tom Stoppard’s “lying rhyme” .

Plato's Ghosts

The previous post, “Ennead Boo,” refers indirectly to a passage from Pindar in Plato’s Meno : See also posts from nine years ago on the death of director…

Ennead Boo

A search in this journal for Yahoo Entities ended with a link to another Log24 search, Nine Years, which in turn suggested… A scene from the current TV…

Symplectic Structure

(Continued) The fictional zero theorem  of Terry Gilliam's current film by that name should not be confused with the zero system underlying the diamond theorem.

The Metaphysics of Entities

Anthony Lane in The New Yorker , issue dated Sept. 22, 2014: "The hero of 'The Zero Theorem' is a computer genius called Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz)…. He is…

Metaphysics for Gilliam

See also… Related remarks: Diederik Aerts at arXiv.org. See also Aerts (as above) on the metaphysics of entities  (1984):

Song of Praise

“Robust and compact, conforming to international standards, the Altivar 08 is a universal product.”