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- I had a long and persistent dream of the Mordell's equation: y^2=x^3+k; where k is an integer. For a given k how ma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 21 hours ago
- The material quoted here and in the last RT are a good example of: मूर्खप्रोत्साहनान् मूर्खत्वम् इदम् एव मूर्खपरम्प… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @Sarvadamana: In that case we *may* find archaeological evidence for flying vimanas and ancient nuclear astra's too 😁 https://t.co/3vd5v… 1 day ago
- A great fear of the mantravAdin-s was also put into the marUnamatta-s due to the abhichAra. A Mogol commander Munaw… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- A sense of number or even basic magnitude is mostly lacking in the first responder from the media in the desh: no d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Cricket
Cricket in pictures
We may say that cricket has nearly passed us by. In our youth we played and watched the game quite a bit. While in secondary school we were fairly interested in cricket statistics. The sources for statistics were not easily … Continue reading
Of lives of men; of times of men-III
Of lives of men; of times of men-II As they were talking, they saw a sallow-complexioned youth pass by them some distance away carrying a bat on his shoulder. Vidrum waved out to him and he responded similarly and after some … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Life, Politics
Tagged inequality, normal distribution, power law, Story
A zarathuShtrian exit at a Hindu funeral
This note continues with the examples we have been providing on these pages illustrating the role of the kavi as a naturalist or an observer of nature. The verse below is a macabre one composed by one of the greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Heathen thought
Tagged cremation ground, Hindu, kavI, kAvya, pANini, Sanskrit, vultures, Zarathushtra, Zoroaster
gulikA-madness
In the long past days we were seated in a niche at the foot of the viShThA-parvata with the chaturtha and the feral brAhmaNa. The chaturtha was caressing his rAmapUrIya asiputrikA while SS polished the handle of his hasta-nAlika. They … Continue reading
gulikAkrIDA: la~NkAvijaya
The sunlit shores of la~NkA, just like the beaches of Southern Saxony where the peerless pirates of emperor Ponting roam like fork-tongued monitors, have been a charnel ground for the Hindu armies over the ages. They have been thrashed over … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket
The victory of the prince of the Bangalore
If am writing this it really means I am wasting time. Since I have done a lot of that over the past two days and feel guilty about I am just adding x to infinity — something a person with … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket
sugrIva and the prince of B’lore
The above illustrates the difference between the prince of B’lore (left) and sugrIva so strikingly. sugrIva: Behind of wicket off=32.2% total=61.1% front of wicket off =28.9%/ front of the wicket =50.1% prince of B’lore: Behind of wicket off=15.8%total=44.2 front of wicket … Continue reading
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