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Re: THOUGHTS: acrostrich
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Carolyn: I take ³accidential² as portmanteau for ³essential accidental.²
We mathematicians prefer ³martingales² to ³nightingales²:
Martingale (probability theory), a stochastic process in which the
conditional expectation of the next value, given the current and preceding
values, is the current value
Any questions?
skb
On 27/02/2009 15:32, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> Oh, dear. I'm miserable with crosswords. But I do at least get the
> musical part (accidentals = sharps & flats). If there are no typos,
> what is an "accidential"?
>
> Was there a Nightingale ode? - - but the only Derzhavin nightingale I
> find in my anthology is "Solovey vo sne" (a short poem). Or could
> there an ode to an Ostrich?!
>
> Alexey?
>
> Carolyn
>
> p.s. The famous ode to a nightingale is of course Keats's - - here he
> is in W J Neatby's illustration:
>
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We mathematicians prefer ³martingales² to ³nightingales²:
Martingale (probability theory), a stochastic process in which the
conditional expectation of the next value, given the current and preceding
values, is the current value
Any questions?
skb
On 27/02/2009 15:32, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> Oh, dear. I'm miserable with crosswords. But I do at least get the
> musical part (accidentals = sharps & flats). If there are no typos,
> what is an "accidential"?
>
> Was there a Nightingale ode? - - but the only Derzhavin nightingale I
> find in my anthology is "Solovey vo sne" (a short poem). Or could
> there an ode to an Ostrich?!
>
> Alexey?
>
> Carolyn
>
> p.s. The famous ode to a nightingale is of course Keats's - - here he
> is in W J Neatby's illustration:
>
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