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Ignosecond - That instant in time while your hand is closing the car door
and your mind is screaming "Oh my God! My keys are in there!"
Sniglets, Rich Hall - 20th century comic
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Omega List' <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: Neural Networks for trading
The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on;
and neither piety nor wit can remove a line of it.
Bob Fulks
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Omar Khayyam
(käm´) (KEY), fl. 11th cent., Persian poet and mathematician, b.
Nishapur. He was called Khayyam [tentmaker] probably because of his
father's occupation. The details of his life are mostly conjectural,
but he was well educated and became celebrated as the outstanding
mathematician of his time. As astronomer to Sultan Malik Shah, he was
one of a group that undertook to reform the calendar. Their work led
to the adoption of a new era, the so-called Jalalian or Seljuk era,
beginning Mar. 15, 1079. Although he wrote a number of important
mathematical studies, Omar's fame as a scientist has been greatly
eclipsed in the West by the popularity of his Rubaiyat, epigrammatic
verse quatrains. The work was little known in Europe until the freely
paraphrased English translation of them was first published by Edward
FitzGerald in 1859. This influenced all subsequent evaluations of his
poetry, even among native speakers of Persian, where FitzGerald's
translation led to a new appreciation of his output. FitzGerald
omitted many of the quatrains (which were independent and
unconnected) and rearranged them into a unity expressing his
conception of Omar's philosophy; it is, however, impossible to
establish definitely that many of the nearly 500 quatrains attributed
to Omar are really his work. The hedonism of his verse often masks
his serious reflections on metaphysical issues. The verses have been
offered in literally hundreds of editions.
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