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Ah, this is like cheating on a compression test by encoding information in the filename.

Or splitting it into several files

http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php

This is a fascinating story about a smug smarty pants being outsmarted!

Great reference!

Also why didn't the article include both of the figures? It can all be found here for those interested; http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf

Too long.

Yet the title is not the authors'. Soifer [explains](http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf):

>John Conway and I accepted the “ﬁller”, and in the January 2005 issue our paper [12] was published. The Monthly, however, invented the title without any consultation with the authors, and added our title to the body of the article! (p. 31, my emphasis)

The above is the authors’ title. The editors invented a new title, and moved the authors’ title into the body of the article.

Of course. "Our" title. Thanks, I stand corrected.

Yeah, leaving that out of the article makes the whole thing meaningless and pretentious. Frankly I'm surprised at the restraint shown by the editors.

Ha, so the paper is breaking the "Betteridge's law of headlines" :)