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devarajkandadai 2008-01-18 09:24

Mally's habits
 
Mally had a habit of using newspaper-cuttings as bookmarks.In one of
his books I found the following:

"200 hundred year old maths query solved"

This refers to solution of "Warring problem"-resolution of any positive
integer into 19 fourth powers-a problem solved by Prof. R.Balasubramaniam
and French collaborators.The cutting is dated 17th Feb 1986.

Incidentally exactly four months have pased since Mally's passing.

A.K.Devaraj

davieddy 2008-01-18 13:13

He never mastered the art of the one-liner though.

devarajkandadai 2008-01-18 13:39

Mally's habits
 
:smile::wink::smile:[QUOTE=davieddy;123114]He never mastered the art of the one-liner though.[/QUOTE]

Ha Ha!-Yes he was a bit loquacious.
Devaraj

Fusion_power 2008-01-19 06:01

less talk. More action. :fusion:

I have to admit missing Mally. Things were NOT dull when he was around.

davieddy 2008-01-20 12:50

[quote=devarajkandadai;123119]:smile::wink::smile:

Ha Ha!-Yes he was a bit loquacious.
Devaraj[/quote]
Verbal diaorreah (can't spell it) is how I would describe it.
(Sorry).

xilman 2008-01-20 14:54

[QUOTE=davieddy;123271]Verbal diaorreah (can't spell it) is how I would describe it.
(Sorry).[/QUOTE]"Dire rear".

And you're probably trying to describe logorrhea.


Paul

davieddy 2008-01-20 15:38

[quote=xilman;123276]"Dire rear".

And you're probably trying to describe logorrhoea.


Paul[/quote]
Diarrhoea. Just got the h and o in the wrong place. Not difficult IMO.
This was indeed what I was trying (succeeded?) to describe.

Not to be confused with their siblings "Chris" or "Gonna":lol:


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