Trivia

The Carol of the Birds (the Catalan carol, not the strange new one), for cello, just playing with MusicTeX.

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From a Russian-French phrasebook, implausibly found in Vienna:

[top to bottom: `You are wrong', `You are mistaken', `I regret a lot', `I am very embarrassed', `I regret very much that it happened like this', `I feel sympathy for you', `I beg of you, please forgive me', `Forgive me for interrupting you (for disturbing your business)', `I am sorry that I bothered you', `Please don't get angry', `Please don't be offended', `It is not my fault']

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Copper foil with a thickness of one ounce per square foot has a sheet resistance of about 0.5 mΩ/square. Copper foil with a thickness of half an ounce per square foot has a sheet resistance of about 1 mΩ/square. This is easy to remember.

September 2007, Cambridge