Just for fun, here is the list of languages that my .999... post has been linked to and discussed in, at least that I know of. I will add to this list as I find more.
English, Spanish, French, Dutch (but no German, oddly), Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Thai.
I have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish and a decent knowledge of Dutch, but it is extremely odd to read sentences like "gibberishgibberish Polymath gibberishgibberish .999...=1 gibbergibberish .000...01 gibberdeegibber idioty!!!!" Especially if that gibberish isn't even in our alphabet (Russian, Korean, Thai). In case you're wondering, apparently an impressively huge number of people read the site www.dirty.ru. I don't understand any of it, of course, but the hits from that site have numbered about 1000-1500 a day since I was linked there recently.
Okay, that's all...nothing profound...get back to work.
It's amazing to me that your post has generated such a fiery storm. As I noted on my blog, I have never seen such passion, fury and intensity with regards to mathematics. Unfortunately it was misplaced, but still, I'm trying to see the silver lining here :).
Posted by: franky | July 10, 2006 at 04:24 PM
Do you realize that a Google search for "polymathematics" returns this blog as the top two hits? Bow Wow!
Posted by: Archie | July 10, 2006 at 09:19 PM
Dirty.ru is a very popular blog formed by its readers. Someone posts a link and if it's disputable enough you get hundreds of comments :-) Not that I think of 0,(9)=1 as disputable, but it looks like not everyone around feels the same way.
The good thing is, I've subscribed to your blog and hope to see more interesting stuff like CMFE :-)
Posted by: Ilya Birman | July 18, 2006 at 09:39 AM
hmmm. Interesting post. Might be a good link:)
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