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He is talking about Vote bank which has creeped into american politics. Because of the ideological position of the conservatives this is gaining support. They dont care who the candidate is Acharya ji That may very well be the case. But there is nothing like "US Psyche" - there is no mono...

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I am not saying nukes will be used against Iran tomorrow if thats what you mean when you say nukes will not be used. But you don't have an understanding of US psyche if you think nukes will never be used. CRamS ji May be I don't understand US psyche (if there is one such). On the other hand if you ...

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All that means a squat, however. Nukes will not be used . How can you be so sure, when US is the only country in the world to have used that against a non-nuclear country in the past? (Mods, as this is OT for this thread, I will stop after this one post) Shyam garu That was a different era. That wa...

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But make no mistake about it, I have lived in US for 20+ years to understand US psyche, push comes to shove, US will use nukes to secure its interests. Don't be fooled by all this hot air talk about how US is stretched, 2 wars bla bla. The nukes US has in its basement are not for doing pooja, and l...

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I think there will not be a war even under a different administration - IMHO the American people are fatigued by funding the two wars at the cost of their economy. One would see large scale (much larger than anti Iraq-war and anti Afghan-war) protests. Then there is the possibility of drafting which...

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finnair stewardesses/stewards performed a dance in a finnair flight from delhi to celebrate india's republic day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsnb3kU ... ture=share

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Happy Republic Day to all

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Yogi_G wrote:...Djikstra the famous Soviet scientist went on to say that with this decision the Soviets lost the cold war.

If you are talking about (Computer Scientist) E. Djikstra, he is Dutch.

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What forecasting model are you using which lets you forecast as far as 200 years in future? Diapanker ji I don't know what he uses - but if history is any guide - the decline and fall of the Roman Empire took more than 500 years and it was relatively less powerful than current day US. Even British ...

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CRamS wrote:This has been the seminal unstated US policy.

CRamS ji

While I don't agree with the "centrality" of keeping us SDREs down, one or two dots are the two slips of tongue by Leon Panetta. I don't have any idea how to resolve that antinomy.

Regards

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let me if you do not mind :) they are different, particularly the chronological order of what took place at Kurushetra. Thanks, Niran ji. I had previously downloaded Ganguly's version (Ramana garu, that is also prose) and started reading. It is a little heavy going due to the facsimile xlation. Now...

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ramana wrote:Pratap Chandra Roy version of 12 vol of Mahabharata!!!
http://www.holybooks.com/mahabharata-al ... pdf-files/

Ramana garu

Do you know whether this version is same as the one by Kisari Mohan Ganguly?

Regards

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Is philosphy a religion? Ramana garu Will Durant, (in the preface to The Story of Philosophy IIRC), says that he did not write about Indian Philosophers like Shankara as that would have made the books much longer. In that context he also says that Indian Philosophy cannot be separated from Hindu Ph...

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Option 1: Buy GOI bonds and hold them for 10 years (like a fixed deposit) and at the end of 10 years GOI will pay you 12% interest p.a, but this income will be taxable in India. Option 2: Buy GOI bonds and hold them for 5 years and at the end of it GOI will pay you 7.75% interest p.a and the income...

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It is the NRIs with large disposabe incomes who were responsible for the initial outflow and then the subsequent return. Arnab ji Looks like I am missing something here (no surprise there as I am not an 'conomist). Why would people pull out forex which is yielding 10-12% and then re-invest at the l...

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That is incorrect sir. Indian credit rating even today is barely above 'investment' grade. At the time it was in 'junk' territory. So there is no way on earth that Europe was offering higher returns ... p.s - if you really lower the bar, I would agree that it was not purely a 'profit' motive - beca...

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So let us not ascribe any patriotism to a purely profit related motive wrt RIBs The interest on RIBs was good but not that good to offset the risks. So, it is not a case of purely profit motive. At that time there were EU countries offering higher rates on long term bonds (IIRC - willing to be corr...

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Some of you - esp. AmberG - might get a kick out of this.

Kiran Kedlaya was a contestant on Jeopardy today and won. So he will be on tomorrow as well.

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I came across the following quote in one of the discussion lists I subscribe to. Thought this might be of interest to Bade saar and Kasturi garu and others. "I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case _nothing_ r...

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what "bitter end"? when Duryodhana himself is dying, the idiot goes out to destroy the "poudha" of the Pandavas. when he goes out to kill the baby in the womb, Kauravas already lost for all intents and puposes, and yet he tries to create more destruction by trying to completely ...

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I will hunt for the verses from MBH and paste them here shortly (by end of next week). about Ashwatthama, well he is the "Paki" character. Atri Ji Is he really? During the Sri Krishna Rayabara he sides with Krishna (and thus Pandava side), but he has to remain loyal to his master and patr...

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I'd like to raise my knowledge of applied math in general. i.e. learn techniques of problem solving primarily for engineering problems. I know the field of math is vast but what book can you recommend that starts at a basic level (and i emphasize basic) yet leaves me with a reasonably good knowledg...

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Duck fox problem answer in the form of a puzzle :) - Assuming no fish in the pond, either both die of hunger or both die of Fatigue ^^^Can you expand on that? One can safely assume that by "escape" here, one means: the duck in a finite time escapes by flying away. (one can even put reason...

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Duck fox problem answer in the form of a puzzle

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Assuming no fish in the pond, either both die of
hunger or both die of Fatigue

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nukavarapu wrote:...
-- Yellow people who wants to take pieces out of the country

That is a little beyond the pale

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A very happy I-day to all. Hope all you in India enjoyed the prabhat bheri and jhenda vandanam.

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Is it true that they are really discontent? The bakis I interact with are all ga-ga over bakistan, ... If they are sooo discontent then why they do not do what their ummah brothers are doing in syria or egypt? disha ji There is difference between Syria and Paistan - Syria has far higher literacy le...

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1. We also had had a small part in putting ourselves in "Soviet Camp". What was our part? SwamyG ji This is all OT in this thread (and moreover it is ancient history, so last post) Our voting pattern in the UN was either vote against US or abstain when it would have helped US. Of course, ...

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Was #1 by choice? How do you actively work towards break up of bakistan? Help the bad taliban to become the good taliban or help the good taliban to become the bad taliban? You are right. While it was involuntary to a large extent, may be we could have done something. I don't know what. "activ...

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...1. What Pakistan did was to bend over backwards to accommodate the cold war concerns of the US, helping to place India in the "soviet camp". Pakistan also played on China's fears of India to ingratiate themselves with China. ... ... India is faced with two choices 1. Don't make war wit...

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JE Menon wrote:Meanwhile, note that the author of the article is a cousin of HR Khar ... minor league back-scratching going on

asinus asinum fricat - A jackass rubs another jackass

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Nandu wrote:...Paki side have always been in the vein of "let us try to win at the negotiating table what we couldn't in the battlefield", ...

IIRC, this was said by the Russians during the Tashkent talks when LBS was the PM.

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^^^ tan(a + b) = (tan(a) + tan(b)) / (1 - tan(a) * tan(b)) This looks a heck of a lot like your formula, where x[n] = tan(a) and x[n+1] = tan(b) and x[n+2] = tan(a + b). Now the rest of it is pretty easy to figure out :) Nice computer assited pattern recognition. This is how computers can help - si...

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^
OK. Tried some simple iterations to see if telescoping kind of trick can be applied. Hmm... could it be zero?

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In my opinion, It does not matter much what you use, "side" or "edge", both are vague, unless you define what you mean by "volume", "box" etc.. in k-dimension..Also meaning of "different" (as in - is 1 x 3 box different than 3 x 1 box..In three dim ...

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Given a number n and k, how many different k-dimensional boxes of volume n with integral sides can be got? Assume that the sides of the boxes are parallel to the coordinate axes. Hello, Can you define the problem clearly please. What is a k-dimensional box ? What is meant by integral side ? What is...

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As promised, here is a problem whose solution can be represented as a computer program (i.e. algorithm) very easily.

Given a number n and k, how many different k-dimensional boxes of volume n with integral sides can be got? Assume that the sides of the boxes are parallel to the coordinate axes.

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brihaspati wrote:Well how about thinking of a small "square" on the "surface"

Bji

Nice

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Younger days would have read up all the books and tried to understand it. Unfortunately miles to go before I sleep. Cool, My intention was not to be dense but since it comes up quite often just wanted to define it completely and unambiguously. The problem is that once one goes to more than one vari...

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Thanks for the explanation. So Jacobin for first derivative and then Hessian for second derivative? When the function is scalar valued, then the Jacobian is called the gradient and is a vector, but yes, Jacobian is a generalization of the first derivative to vector-valued functions of several varia...

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