27 Apr
2015
27 Apr
'15
8:01 p.m.
On 28/04/2015 02:12, Bill Gosper wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell famously wrote an accidental poem which I've never seen correctly quoted: "Hence no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line which is accurately straight"
I've seen it before with "... which shall be absolutely straight", and it's pretty obvious why: that has the "correct" metre, unlike what Whewell apparently actually wrote. -- g