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Nose Breaker
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:16 am
by mjlef
I was just told that "Lomonosov" means "nose breaker". I have always admired that great work done on the Lomonosov 7-piece tablebases, and think this is a great name for them, although I know they were named for the university they were computed at.
Re: Nose Breaker
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 3:23 am
by MikeB
mjlef wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:16 am
I was just told that "Lomonosov" means "nose breaker". I have always admired that great work done on the Lomonosov 7-piece tablebases, and think this is a great name for them, although I know they were named for the university they were computed at.
and the university was named after this man ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov
quite an interesting character, predicted the existence of Antartica ( as many others did as well, but his logic was the most sound, the source of icebergs in the Southern Pacific ) even before it was discovered ...