The MAA sells a CD of his collected columns, organized by (and as they appeared in) books. Maybe it's easy to figure its (total bytes) / (# columns) ? —Dan
On Oct 21, 2015, at 1:41 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone happen to know (or have a way to easily determine) the average length of a Martin Gardner column, as measured by word-count?
Jim Propp
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:43 PM, rwg <rwg@sdf.org> wrote:
On 2015-10-21 06:16, James Propp wrote:
Who wants to post the lucky hundredth testimonial to Martin?
It would be great if we could get the total up to 101 (or beyond) in time for the 101st anniversary of Martin's birth (tomorrow). http://martin-gardner.org/Testimonials.html
has already reached 101, so I'll just repeat here two that I've contributed to Gathering publications.
I once counted his citations for exemplary usage in the electronic edition of Merriam Webster's Unabridged (which I no longer have). It was in the dozens, near the highest. (Along with a Mr and Mrs(?), improbably named Beaglehole).
In his column Martin speculated that the limiting shape of the the tetrahedral analog of Koch's Snowflake construction would be "smooth as a marble". It turns out to be a perfect cube, hence the name of the interlocking sheet: http://gosper.org/martinsmarbles.png --rwg