Talk:Life: A User's Manual

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Doesn't look like anyone has been working intently on this page in awhile. I'd like to expand it some more, some of the sections are quite good, but some are rather short and perhaps a little too brief for those who have not actually read the novel. I also think the page coul possibly use to be reorganized a little bit -- perhaps find some way to integrate the "novel" section with the "elements" section? Any suggestions?JKillah 15:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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Capitalization police please note: "La Vie mode d'emploi" is exactly how the title appears in both of my copies. :-) -- user:Tarquin

Proper names of things like books need to have the capitalization the the author of the book placed on his/her book. This is a noted exception to the capitalization rule. However, my searches indicate that the title is sometimes expressed with a lowercase "v", as in, La vie mode d'emploi. But since the capitalization is correct, in this case, I think a redirect is in order from the lowercase term to the properly capitalized term. Thank you for noting the correct capitalization here - It would bave been difficult for me to find this out by trying to translate those search results. --maveric149

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I don't want to trespass too much on matters about which others know more than I, but ... Am I right in thinking that the construction of the apartment block is in fact a graeco-latin square of order 10? The interesting thing here is that Leonhard Euler had believed that no such array existed but it was constructed by computer search in 1959. Cutler 11:18, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

yes, that's right. I wrote "double Latin square" because I wasn't sure of the English translation. -- Tarquin 10:54, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)