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...Hamilton used upon at a rate of three per 1,000 words-or 18 times more often than Madison. The next step was to compile statistical profiles of the authors' known styles and the disputed Papers. To compare the profiles, Mathematicians Mosteller and Wallace then used Bayes' theorem (1763): "If q1 q2 . . . qn are a set of mutually exclusive events, the probability of qr, conditional on prior information H and on some further event p, varies as the probability of qr on H alone times the probability of p given qr and H, namely, P(qrpH...
...Sense and consistency are not what one asks of a polemicist. If his rotten eggs hit their target often enough, it does not matter what else they hit. And some of Miller's past eruptions have spattered the landscape marvelously, affronting puritans by proving the neglected Rabelaisian theorem that fornication can be funny. But more often, as in the present book, what Miller throws is not rotten eggs but gamy generalities (art is good, materialism is bad). His words tumble along at the same daft speed whatever the subject, but Miller, however good a pillowsopher, does not stand...
...Complaisant Lover (by Graham Greene) contends that love and marriage do not mix, but that husbands and lovers can be good mixers. The husband in this diverting trinomial theorem is a dentist (Michael Redgrave) who has drifted out of the sex habit. The lover (Richard Johnson) is a bookshop owner who collects other men's wives like first editions. The wife (Googie Withers) is a happy mother of two who embarks on an illicit affair with the booksy chap to balance her emotional diet...
...endlessly rearranging "golden beads," the children quickly learn the rational order of tens, hundreds and thousands, then addition, multiplication, subtraction and division, in that logical order, going on to square roots and the binomial theorem at the age of six. They are so fascinated with numbers that they sit around adding enormous sums for fun, or writing higher and higher numbers on long strips of paper. "I'm going to 60,000 today," said one somber four-year-old last week, as the teacher handed him another yard of paper...
...press conference: "We have tried to achieve an exciting design in architecture as well as allowing the birds as much light and freedom as possible." London critics looked at a model of the angular, chichi aviary and formed their own opinions. Among them: "An attempt to disprove some geometric theorem," "An Aeolian harp gone awry." Said the Guardian: "The idea of a bird in a gilded cage occurred to many...