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Entry: 42 and the missing 5 or The Anatomy of a Person Recovering from a Brain Injury Doing Hard Math - A32989990
Author: Arithmeticae - U11070054

Not ready for a while yet but I want some opinions guidance.

Ready now, for editing.

Ok, you're clearly au fait with editing html, which is admirable

The downside is that you're going to have to strip a lot of it out if you want it to go into the Edited Guide at some point. You'll need to lose:

The font tag, because colour, font and size are all defined by the skin you view h2g2 in. I can't read the text in my skin, because the contrast between the font and the background is very low.

The blobs, which are added by the Editors.

And the tags.

When you've done that, shout up. You can find out more about GuideML at the GuideML Clinic, A187229

Done that, ready again

Thank you

It's far too late for me to read anything like this sensibly, so if I haven't got back to you in a day or two please shout up. In the meantime other readers may post comments here, of course, but if not give me a kick!

Title:

How to look for Patterns

A new title and possibly subheading or nothing, removing reference to my brain injury, a bit of self indulgence their I think.
What do you think?

Interestingly, my brain injury didn't affect my math ability, just processing speed, and concentration.

It knocked 20pts off my premorbid full scale IQ, but I have still above average IQ. So maybe I shouldn't refer to it in the essay.

Is it ready yet?

Ok. I've got around to having a read of it now

What I really think you should do is remove it from this forum and submit it to another one where it will get more attention. I will freely admit that my knowledge doesn't cover this type of subject! I would imagine that the best place for this is the Writing-Alternative forum, and I think you'd get good responses there. It's the forum for more alternative ideas and free-thinking, and I'm sure it will be quite at home there.

You know, I had a break of about eight years from the Internet, due to refusing to pay a telephone bill where it mistakenly showed me phoning somebody or something eight times a second mostly everyday.

Also I suffered a stroke as a result of being run over, and haven't pursued mathematics, something I used to be VERY GOOD at, for about ten years.

But technology came to the rescue with the advent of mobile broadband, I still won't pay that bill you see.

I saw the Internet as a means to revive my interest in mathematics, and develop new ones.

Its all a bit of a muddle though, gone are those interesting and helpful people with whom you could instantly debate the finer points of your topic of interest, to be replaced by THREADS. What are these things.

The Internet is a completely different place, its users communicating in a completely different language. It must be my age, what is a BLOG.

I must apologise for my naivety of getting the mistaken idea that a 'Writing Workshop' was the place to go to polish up unfinished work and learn writing skills. Also for proposing the bizaar idea that anybody without at least four years training at the highest level in mathematics should ever attempt hard questions.

Thwaites is as guilty as I of doing this since he bogged down a train load of passengers with a hard problem for a whole month. Well at least they didn't try 'Fermat's Last Theorem' because I believe that took four hundred years to solve.

The only way this entry gets in the alternative place is when I'm dead, which apparently isn't too long to wait.

I think you've misunderstood me somewhere along the line. I'm not someone who you can discuss mathematics with at all. To me your writing is, for the most part, incomprehensible. That is simply because I am not a mathematician. It doesn't really bother me either way whether or not you want to listen to my advice; that's your choice, of course.

Whatever you do with it, I wish you all the best of luck.