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grisha@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (grisha@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 24 18:09:13 1992

Let's make life short here...

X started from y-axis and buzzed along until 1-y...

Addition and integration are twins (Pause) in fact, the symbol
[for integration] is just a hammered-in sigma.

What's the difference between the mass of an object and its area?
Yes, it's the density!

Is it less or more than [some distance]? More or less? Yes!

This is the point where everything on this triangle meets...
Well, mybe not everything, but practically everything.

[After talking about it for 20 minutes] I don't even know what the moment
of inertia represents!

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