Facts

Facts can be difficult to obtain, sometimes. For example:

Personal Infomation for Vernon Nemitz
Birth Date: CENSORED
Astrological Sign: CLASSIFIED
Marital Status: MYOB

See?

But some impersonal/personal info can be found in this dynamite resume.
Then there is the thought-provoking cover letter that should be read, too.
And a little actual personality-type info can be found in my extra long and detailed resume.
(Note that they are .RTF files, which may be safely opened by most word processors,
because the format does not support macros, and so is immune to macro viruses.
However, some local resetting of the margins (to 1") may be necessary, after loading the files.)

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Then there are facts of the oddball variety, which might be about anything.
For example, the expression "once in a blue moon" actually has two different factual meanings.
One of them concerns the Moon truly appearing to be blue. This has been known to happen,
such as after the volcano known as Krakatau "blue" up in 1883, and injected a lot of dust into
the Earth's stratosphere.

The other meaning is rather prosaic by comparison. The Moon presents a fully-illuminated disk
to the Earth about every 28 days, as you probably know. Thirteen such full moons can occur
in any given year, since 13 x 28 = 364. That means just about every year (on the Christian
calendar) contains a month in which the Moon becomes full twice. That second full moon in a
single month is called, for who-knows-what-oddball-reason, a "blue" moon.

The astute reader will immediately notice that, since there are 365 days in a year,
there is room in an occasional year for 14 full moons. I have no idea what special name they give
to that 14th full moon (the second blue in a single year). (A "green cheese moon", anyone?)

Moving on, perhaps you will agree that mathematical statements tend to be factual in nature.
If so, then here are two files that are chock-full of facts:
Sums of Powers Formulae
Finite Differences Formulae
The two text files contain things that I can legitimately claim were independently discovered
by myself. The first file may actually contain genuinely original material, even though it
seems to me to be merely a special case of the material in the second file -- and I have tended
to think that mathematicians have probably known that stuff for centuries. I could be wrong
about that, though. And it's an interesting feeling -- wanting to be wrong....

Other facts are likely to be posted here, at random.
Come back, oh, say, once in a blue moon, and see.

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