Ah there it is.* I remember telling somebody about accidentally
finding a pattern while playing around with making spirals in
Excel... and getting ALL EXCITED because I thought I discovered
something new (I noticed a pattern where prime numbers seemed to
"chunk together" along diagonal lines) Then... I found out this
guy did it 50 years before me :-| Still though, it was pretty
cool.* GS * was it you I was talking about it with?* Couple of
months ago?* I don't remember now. Anyway, that's when I
realized I could so easily get sucked into the [1]#mathematics
world.* Always a new pattern to discover.* Always finding out
somebody else found out long before me.* Plus, I can't read
mathematical formulas.* I mean, I can read them if they're
written in programming languages or Excel... but I never got
used to the weird way math is written.* I'm an ASCII guy.* If it
fits in ASCII, I can read it, but as soon as you get weird
symbols and crap, then I'm like NO GIVE ME WORDS PLEASE. Oh
well. Anyway, after getting all excited then getting a little
let down ('cause it wasn't new) I gave up on chasing mathematics
for answers.* Somebody else can go through all that stuff and
find new discoveries.* Not me.* I have a zillion other projects
to attend to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam
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