L' Eomot Inversé (5/30/2013)

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That's a fun question.

But maybe there will be complaints from some who think QotD should test only knowledge and not reasoning (except perhaps very trivial...

You made me doubt myself for a moment, but:

http://planetmath.org/compactnessofclosedunitballinnormedspaces

[cool math]Pretty sure the same is true of any metric space: cover the ball with open neighbourhoods of the endpoints of a...

This could go on for a long time... 🙂

a ball in a Euclidean space is compact (under the induced topology) and there's no reason for the definition of a...

I probably should have confessed earlier that neither is mine. But judging by your last name Hugo,...

Nice attempt at a "proof by intimidation" but I...

Perhaps I did not make myself very clear.

Of course you can take a definition and pretend that that is how everything "is supposed to work". But I am pretty...

Depends on where you are coming...

Nice one. Would have had it wrong if I hadn't expected a "catch".

Thanks for the article Nakul.

I have a question about HASHBYTES (and hashing in general) to which I have found it impossible so far to find a definite answer. Perhaps you...

Bedankt Hugo.

I didn't expect anyone to spend a lot of time on it but mainly tried to confirm that the answer wasn't easily...

Don't be: extreme examples are a good and effective way of checking the (non-)validity of an explanation....

Thanks Hugo,

so is it correct to summarise this as: the sort occurs (logically) in two phases. The first phase is always case/accent/etc (?) INsensitive and the (optional) second phase...

So random words like this wouldn't be considered, as long as the word is legit English word and it should has the proper space in the dictionary too. I don't...

Ah: that's basically what Luis already said: sorry Luis!

emiddlebrooks (9/12/2012)

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I'm also a bit confused why peppers is at the end. If lowercase p is before uppercase p, which I knew it would be, why was it at the...