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I have long taken delight in how the Net lets me rub electrons informally with scholars such as John Conway and Larry Trask.

On September 12, I wrote to Eric Weisstein of MathWorld:

If the tetrahedral rotation group is isomorphic to A4, as is easily shown, why are they listed as distinct groups of order 12?

It appears that my question triggered a major rewrite of the latter page. Wow. (The answer to my question is that there are two unrelated groups called T, both of order 12.)

2006: Trask died in 2004, alas.

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