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Meh.

My great grandfather was Hitler

More wishes!

melon — melon — Arab

You forgot raton (small rat) for the same meaning!

Also of note : Raton is in raton laveur, meaning raccoon, where coon can mean a black person in the US of A!

Fascinating

Please Eddy, do not turn my fine egyptian mystery into you

While looking for jackal pornography, I ended on this ancient artefact : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19940612/Jackal/60c2a003833d6ff742a79f614b6b16f4.jpg Two jackals (or possibly foxes) bonking, on a limestone shard dated from the 12th-13th century BCE, found in Deir el-Medina (cf this ). I was unfortun...

Otters and seals, with massive appeal

Normal numbers are numbers that have the property that, in a given base, they will have every possible combination of digits (the actual definition requires that every sequence of digit is uniformely distributed). The most trivial normal number is the Champernowne constant, which is just 0,123456789...

- Inventing zero. Our own culture still has a long way to go here - we still call the first day of the month "1", and plenty of other things. That doesn't have much to do with the invention of 0. - Sticking to integers. In fact, our society went from inventing continuous numbers to realising that n...

I think any change in mathematics of a conculture would be either : 1) Mostly cosmetic. Different bases, symbols, computing algorithms, etc. If you want a handy reference, you can check "Mathematics across cultures : The History of non-western mathematics". 2) Related to things only mathematicians c...

It was the least gay otter picture I could find on FA :V

Yes. Also, don't recommend Google Imaging "Gay otter." Apparently the gay bear community has co-oped the word.

Not to mention the furries.

I feel like semaphor telegraphy could've been invented by the Chinese or Romans, anyone with a stable agricultural empire for some period of time and the need for complicated administration and the communication that entails. I'm not sure about that. While the mechanics involved itself is pretty st...