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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] This means something...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jul 8, 2026, 11:33<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>>… Playful banter? What playful banter? I never saw that.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>>…Yessir, gemini knows you by name - you're famous….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool thx Mike. But JIP! No mention of playful banter and my being the world humility champion! I feel cheated. I’ll sue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding that cryptography mention, one of the things of ExI that I regret is that no one archived (as far as I know) Hal Finney’s spinoff side group which discussed blockchain, at the root of cryptocurrency, that anything of fixed or controlled quantity can be used as a currency. That all started because Hal was interested in Mersenne primes, and the notion I will claim: that one could discover a Mersenne prime, then offer to sell it to the highest bidder, who would then be famous for all eternity in math circles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hal took the idea and ran with it (a very Halish thing to do.) He was the guy smart enough to figure out how to create a blockchain system for it, enabling a person to own a number. I don’t know if he invented it himself, but somebody (I think it was Hal) figured out how to make a hash function with a limited number of solutions, each one of which requires more compute cycles to find, then secure the find with blockchain. I think our own late Hal Finney is the real father of BitCoin, the importance of which grows over time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… I fully expected "redness of red, qualia of quale…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No sir. I have always eschewed every discussion of qualia. I have made it perfectly clear I have never understood that concept and I am most satisfied to leave that to those more qualified.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…pheasant of fez" <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hey cool, I like it. May I steal that please Mike?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…</span>to be irresistable to spike-style "yes, and..." but I get life moves fast - faster than ever. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…</span>Heh, I've spent considerable time discussing part of something so small it doesn't even take up space - specifically row zero of pascal's triangle. Not sure if something so small counts as a big idea?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That is a big idea. My intuition tells me that row zero contains a 1. I need to figure out what row -1 contains, but my intuition again kicks in and suggests row -1 must somehow create some kind of symmetry. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Mike do you know the answer?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>