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Talk:Ham Sandwich Theorem (view source)
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::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:00, 2 August 2011 (EDT)
::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:00, 2 August 2011 (EDT)
:::OK, I'm coming out with my hands up. This summer I was neither teaching nor travelling, so I whiled away some time inserting liberal deceit into CP. However, I can't continue in the face of your obvious sincerity. It was your apology for hurting me that finally made up my mind. For what it's worth, I was pretending to be hurt because you clearly didn't agree with me that my Gabriel's Horn article was subtle parody.
:::I've checked out some of your mathematical articles at CP, and they seem to be sound, unlike those created by by anybody else. I urge you, in all sincerity, to give up working on CP and find a better use for your time and talents. In the first place, you're never going to catch up with Wikipedia. Second, Conservapedia is not a serious site. It's a playpen for Aschafly and his cronies to promote their extreme right-wing and biblical-literalist views in front of a tiny audience, indulge in mutual back-scratching, and build up their self-esteem by ban-hammering anyone who deviates by a micron from their line. In short, it's a joke.
:::On a few specific points: You should care about whether the Ham Sandwich Theorem is described as a theorem of analysis or topology. They're different subjects, one should get it right, and "I don't remember just what course covered it when I was a student" is a cop-out. The use of cubic cubits was, I thought, a clear indicator that I was using the "biblical value" of pi. To digress, while I am a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, I don't regard 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2 as reasons for disbelief; 3 is good enough for government work, and probably for God's work. I do find it amusing that many believers, Jewish and Christian, have expended a lot of effort on coming up with explanations for why exactly 3 was, in fact, right. Mostly they're variations on Rabbi Nehemiah, who of the four combinations of inside/outside diameter and inside/outside circumference picked the least likely. There are more bizarre explanations, such as that the measurement of the circumference was made by six men, who instead of stretching a rope around the circumference, inexplicably made a hexagon.
:::Finally, I am indeed inappropriately mixing mathematics and theology. By now you should know why.
:::I'm out of here. Best wishes and good luck to you.
:::PS. The link in the references section of my user page is to one of the greatest comedy routines since Aristophanes. Peter Cook's character is E.L. Wisty
:::[[User:ELWisty|ELWisty]] 20:02, 5 August 2011 (EDT)ELWisty