September 2, 2005

• Soap

  Faith

  Faith is an island in the setting sun

  But proof, yes

  Proof is the bottom line for everyone

  – Paul Simon, “Proof”

  This morning’s bottom line:
  From Polya-Burnside Counting (pdf),
  from today’s New York Times,
  and from “related topics” in
  article on Symmetry in Wikipedia:

  

  
   
   
  R. L. Burnside

       Burnside’s lemma —

  
  

  Raise your weary wings
  against the rain, my baby

  Wash your tangled curls
  with gambler’s soap

  – Paul Simon, “Proof”  

  Lottery numbers for
  Pennsylvania, Sept. 1, 2005:

  “Proof is the bottom line for everyone”–

  Day = 120

  “Faith is an island in the setting sun”–

  Evening = 511

  See also
  Giving the Devil His Due.

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