Mr. Small was nothing at all
And Mrs.Tiny less
And Missy Minature a dot.
God bless them all, God bless.
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Saturday, 24 Nov 2018, 21:17
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Mr. Small was nothing at all
And Mrs.Tiny less
And Missy Minature a dot.
God bless them all, God bless.
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I have sometimes surprised people because I can recall and explain de Morgan's Law that
not (A and B) = (not A) or (not B)
and
not (A or B) = (not A) and (not B)
I remember it because I find it elegant.
Clever chap, that de Morgan. He also wrote one of my favourite poems (of which I was reminded by yours):
Little fleas have littler fleas
Upon their backs to bite 'em.
And littler fleas have still littler fleas
And so on, ad infinitum.
But I see that with my usual incompetence of memory for quotes, I do not recall it correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem) . And now that I see it is a parody of a satire about poets, I am even more impressed with the genius of de Morgan.
And I think I'm doing well just because I can remember one of his laws of logic.
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Fourth attempt at that link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
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I always remembered
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
which I thought was by Swift, but I see I was wrong and it is De Morgan's version.
I liked the others on the WP page as well, very good!
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I feel if I tried to hold a candle to the likes of de Morgan and Swift, I would burn my fingers with hot wax, wreck the carpet, then find I had arrived a week early.
Or - crushingly - two or three centuries too late.
Who are the Jonathan Swifts of today? Are there any?