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When I first came to Bath my father explained to me that the difference between a lecturer and a professor is that the latter can do larger sums; hence the expression Professor of Hard Sums. Mind you, with some of these pure mathematicians I suspect they can add more than twice as many digits as I can. Of course since the expulsion from Mathematical Sciences these comments are hardly relevant. I suppose I am meant to be able to write longer programs that a lecturer.....

jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk

Last modified: Wed Sep 5 09:10:03 BST 2001