On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:46, Andreas Eder wrote: > > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > >> Q: What's the value of a contour integral around Western Europe? > > >> A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe.
No. See below. > > > > > > These days more than a few hundred thousand Poles are actually in > > > Britain, Germany and everywhere else but Poland. :-) > > No, no - the answer is still zero, because these poles are > removable. Well, if you want the whole of England to be deprived of plumbers.... In any case, there are two geographical poles, two magnetic poles and maybe some more I haven't thought of, which are not in Eastern Europe and are definitely not removable. Look up the Hairy Dog theorem. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
