[Maths-Education] Help wanted!

[Jeremy Burke]

Maybe you searched on Venetian instead of "Venetain"?

Or maybe the "member of the public" meant Latin squares?

Jeremy Burke

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From: "Romulo Lins" <romlins@rc.unesp.br>
To: <maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Maths-Education] Help wanted!


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> Dear Geoff,
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> I searched the web (altavista advanced) and got around 160 hits, all of
> them about travel in Italy and other countries where there is a
> "Venetian Square"! No refs to maths, though.
>
> Maybe this is not a mathematical square after all!
>
> all the best
> Romulo
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> Geoff Kissane wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> > I am a teacher in a school in Western Australia and was asked today, by
a
> > member of the public, to explain what a Venetain Square was. He was
given to
> > understand that it was mathematical, but I have had no luck.
> > Does anyone have any info for me??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Geoff Kissane
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