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grifatonon Music Theory For Beginners (part 2)

6/8 really has two beats in a bar, each beat containing three quavers, while 3/4 has three beats in a bar.

grifatonon Plan9 compiler extensions in gcc 4.6

Can somebody explain the significance of this to me?

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Does anybody know how (if?) this was resolved? A quick google doesn't throw anything recent up.

grifatonon London Names Map

I'm not sure about this - first-century London was about the size of Hyde Park!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_London#First_century_AD

Edit - also, it appears that prior to the fifteenth century, the Welsh tended to use a patronymic naming system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_surnames

grifatonon London Names Map

Fascinating, but not especially surprising. Some references to eg major roads or borough boundaries would be really useful!

grifatonon Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

But "n+1, where n is your number", is not well defined with respect to this game...

grifatonon University of Cambridge - Streaming media service

Tim Gowers was always good value - the series on Computational Complexity and Quantum Compuation (http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/545992) very interesting, although I've only watched the first lecture.