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[edit] Mobius strip
Per your (now deleted) comment on the talk page, there are indeed left and right handed Mobius strips. In fact, if you take the standard minimal crossing diagrams of the left and right handed trefoils, the checkerboard coloring gives the left and right handed Mobius strips. The rh and lh trefoils are different by a classical result of Dehn.
BTW, it's frowned upon by many people to remove your comment like that, even if you wish to retract them. You can either add another comment retracting it or use the strike tag like this to cross out your response. The reason is that the talk page is to encourage discussion and removing comments (even if they are mistaken) tends to stifle discussion. For example, consider that my first paragraph might be useful for future contributors reading the page.
Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia! You may find these page useful: Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/Mathematics and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Current_activity. Don't hesitate to ask me for help if you need it. --C S (Talk) 13:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sock and Buskin
See the revised article. - Nunh-huh 02:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation of Asimov
Hi, I reverted your edit to Isaac Asimov. If you feel /ˈæzɪˌmɔf/ is off the mark, please tell us why you think so, at Talk:Isaac Asimov#IPA. Thank you. :) --Kjoonlee 16:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Millihelen
It sounds plausible that Isaac Asimov coined "millihelen", but where is the evidence/documentation? Even finding an early use in his writing would be a good start. The earliest use in Google Books is 1970 (possibly; full text is not available); one book mentions Denis Norden as having coined it, but that book was published in 2003 and gives no source.... --Macrakis 04:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Deleting Jonathan Raban article
You mindless and needlessly deleted the entire article on the author, Jonathan Raban, without any proper explanation. Please can you explain the rationale for your actions? Ivankinsman 11:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Numb3rs
I have no recollection of making the edit you described to me. I have looked at "my contributions" and the only edit I made was a small grammar update edit by changing "has been" to "was". Furthermore, by looking through the history of the page, if I compare the edits you made on May 5th, the change you claim I made was your own doing. --CmaccompH89 23:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I accept your apology. I'm glad that the issue was resolved easily. Cheers. --CmaccompH89 15:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
...for your message on my talk page. Yes I have a few user boxes, but nowhere near as many as some folks do! As for the graphic on the punctuation box (the code for which, by the way is {{User british quotes}}), I guess it depends whether the quoted text is a question. Not quite sure though why the Olivia Judson article would lead you to my user page... – ukexpat (talk) 12:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
