Tag: language
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餛飩 (Part I of II)
Chaos Clouds One of my favourite foods is 餛飩 húndùn “wonton”, a kind of Chinese dumplings found in soup, either alone as 餛飩湯 húndùn tāng (湯 tāng “soup”) or with noodles as 餛飩麵 húndùn miàn (麵 miàn “noodles”). Aside from the tastiness (and the nostalgia, since it’s a dish from my childhood), a major reason… Read more
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Undefined: A Definitive Definition
If you know anything about math, you’ll almost certainly have heard that division by zero is undefined. Now, to the math savant, this probably makes perfect sense. To the math simpleton (*raises hand*), this is a record scratch in the brain. Math is a(n annoyingly abstract but somehow ridiculously accurate) tool for describing real world… Read more