Author Archives: Anton

stop helping me

For many years now I have maintained a long list of bookmarks to comic strips and other serials. Because I like to read earliest first, rather than follow any one title through its whole archive, I named the bookmarks with … Continue reading

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increasing harmony

In 1987 I conceived a theoretical improvement on the quarter-comma meantone scale: the generators are 2−5/4 31/4 57/16 (a ‘tone’, 194.501 cents) and 27/2 3−1/2 5−9/8 (a ‘semitone’, 114.420 cents). I previously showed a guitar concept fretted accordingly; see that … Continue reading

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Novial

I recently reread Otto Jespersen’s An International Language (1928) which presents Novial, a new international auxiliary language. (Jespersen had previously taken part in the development of Ido from Esperanto.) I did not love it quite as much as I did … Continue reading

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tours

How many Euler circuits are there in the complete directed graph on N vertices? More interesting to me, how many equivalence classes under reversal and relabeling?

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new cat

Most of the bot comments here are on a few posts, for which I have now created a category spambait.

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in the dormitoire

I bought a cat-cave, and Bramble clearly approves, though he still prefers to get under my blankets. If he had his way I’d never get out of bed.

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stop mnemonic porosity

Watching The Long Kiss Goodnight and enjoying it as much as I did in 1996. I find that I have regularly misquoted a favorite bit of dialogue. My memory for wording is usually better than that. Perhaps I inherited a … Continue reading

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