Fyrst Hjalti gat þetta svona fljótt, þá kemur hér eitt í viðbót. Flestir munu kannast við lagið, en ég vil fá heiti þess:
(Halldór Eldjárn)
Þetta er rétt hjá þér Hjalti, bæði tvennt. E.t.v. of auðvelt hjá mér.
Og já, hérna færðu ósk þína, Halldór.
Og já, Hjalti, sendu mér ímeil með laginu sem þú vilt. Ekkert of erfitt, plís. Ég verð eiginlega helst að þekkja lagið til að geta spilað það almennilega.
Var að heyra frábæra sögu af Charles Babbage og Alfred Lord Tennyson, I couldn't think of any other place to post it.
Babbage was an early pioneer in the field of nerdism, I think you will concur.
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The English mathematician Charles Babbage, who conceived programmable computation, wrote to the young poet Tennyson. "In your otherwise beautiful poem," he said, "one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
" ... If this were true," he went on, "the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest :"
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
"Strictly speaking," Babbage added, "the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry."

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