Author Archives: Anton

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? N circuits: n(n-2) (n-2)!n classes 3 3 1 4 256 6 5 972000 4089 … Continue reading

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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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unaccustomed lucidity

I have often had dreams of futility, which I take to be a sign of depression. For example: there are many scraps of paper on the floor, and I have to find a specific one, but I cannot read. This … Continue reading

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David Bowie

Somehow I never had anything by David Bowie in my collection (other than a German version of “Heroes” on some sampler album, and “Under Pressure” on the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack) until recently when I picked up Best of Bowie … Continue reading

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Single White Female

A key scene in the above-titled flick cannot work unless the two leads have very similar breasts; and now I’m curious about the casting process.

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