Probably off-topic but it seems like this thread is kinda degenerating anyway....
Wasn't there something about his wife advising him using astrology or some such bunk?
I'd be surprised that someone believing in astrology would know what a derivative, or indeed just an asymptote, even meant.
Hah yeah. That would've been lousy indeed. :)
Or wait... would it? I would have discovered an L sooner and the O would still have been correctly placed... I dunno. As I said my MO is "meandering chaos". :P
And yes. Luck. Then again I need a little luck to be able to compete as English is only...
It was a pretty nonchalant guess. Since A, E and I had been eliminated I was trying to eliminate more vocals and O and U seemed obvious choices. I chose DOUGH mostly because it was the first word I could think of with those 2 vocals and consisting of all different letters.
I don't consult any...
The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics (physics.hist-ph / cond-mat.stat-mech).