21 Jun
2011
21 Jun
'11
1:56 p.m.
On 2011 Jun 21, at 10:33 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Enough about toilet paper, the burning question is how is it there are
even numbers in a supposed list of prime number calculations from SEAC?
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I didn't know how to describe it, but you're spot on. When
encountering it, we American students were gobsmacked (I think a
couple of students even wrote home to get some of the soft stuff sent
over).
... I spent the summer of 1985 in Britain and
remember the bog paper
as being quite stout...
The stuff we had to endure at school over there was certainly rather
robust
- although I recall it not being abrasive as such, but more like
baking
parchment in terms of texture (i.e. smooth and rather shiny in
appearance). I could certainly see it making its way through a
printer without
mishap.
I don't fancy the chances of Charmin through a teletype, but that
stuff... probably fine.
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