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#photolog: July 09 2025

Jul 9, 2025 1 min read photolog

Living canvas II

#photolog: July 08 2025

Jul 8, 2025 1 min read photolog

Living canvas

#photolog: Workstation

Jun 22, 2025 1 min read photolog

A rather well stocked bar — The move is over, the workstation is up again

#photolog: A New York Sour

Jun 1, 2025 1 min read photolog

Two double old-fashioneds, filled with two layered liquids. Yellow at the bottom, red at the top. Plenty of ice cubes. — A New York Sour, substituting the red wine with Uhudler-Frizzante

#photolog: Equals

May 16, 2025 1 min read photolog

Big Data for the Leviathan Tom Johnson quotes the early modern mathematicians Robert Recorde and John Wallis, and remarks on Wallis's invention of the lemniscate symbol to denote infin- ity (LRB, 24 October). Recorde had a far greater influence on the way we write math- ematics: his book The Whetstone of Witte (I557) introduced the = symbol for equal- ity, with the rationale that ' noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle' than a pair of par- allel lines. The book is also notable as the first in English to use the modern plus and minus signs. (Recorde also coined the term zenzizenzizenzic to mean an eighth power which survives today as the solitary entry in the OED with six 'z's.) Artie Prendergast-Smith Loughborough — The moare you know