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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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Posted on: January 10, 2008 2:54 PM, by Dave Bacon
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Wait, what's bad about the \infty moniker?
Posted by: Domenic | January 10, 2008 3:08 PM
For years I could never remember which letters were dropped.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | January 10, 2008 4:04 PM
Sometimes I wish Scienceblogs allowed inlined TeX in comments.
Posted by: Coin | January 10, 2008 4:22 PM
I don't mind that TeX uses \infty -- but HTML uses &inf;, so I get confused when I'm going back and forth between writing TeX documents and writing web pages.
Posted by: Isabel | January 10, 2008 4:57 PM
its the only thing I have ever \newcommand-ed into a longer command: \infinity.
Posted by: Matt | January 10, 2008 5:01 PM
ha! ha! (rotfl)
heh (wipes a tear from his eye)
touché (indeed the quantummies reeked of msword kerning)
(mrg sometimes really misses his carefully honed fax-resolution cm font set that used to amaze his clients with its clarity but alas was lost completely the day he tried to 'reinstall' the windows partition)
Posted by: mrG | January 11, 2008 3:33 PM
Ah, perhaps that is why you never read that paper I sent you on closed time-like curves. It wasn't written in TeX.
Posted by: Ian Durham | January 18, 2008 8:48 PM