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From: Quora Digest <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: To a mathematician, is there any difference between 4+5 and 5+4? - Quora Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:24:20 +0000 [PA'Quora Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest To a mathematician, is there any difference between 4+5 and 5+4? tr,INI William La Chenal i'h .4 am 284.1k views It's 9:51, and a mathematician has a train to catch, and an important phone call to make at to:oo. The train leaves in 4 minutes 35 seconds. That's four minutes to get to the train & board, then five minutes to find a seat and get comfortable before getting out the mobile phone, for the important call. Or, it's five minutes to get to the platform in time see the the train vanishing in the distanc... Read More » Did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have instructions of what to do if they couldn't take off from the moon? , C Stuart Hardwick, Scifi Author, Writers of the Future winner. Stua 48.8k views 2, Probably not. I heard an interview with Buzz Aldrin in which he said people often ask if they carried poison pills. They did not. When you can reach up at any time and crack a valve that will let the air out slowly enough you pass out before anything starts to boil, you don't need poison pills. In all likelihood, these men--experienced test pilots--would have continued working the problem right ... Read More >> From arc session What advantages does publishing with the big 4 publishers have and how might it decay over time? ejii Ricardo Fayet, Co-Founder of Reedsy-com card 451 views That's a good question. Just to clarify for people who might not know this, the "big 5" publishers are Penguin Random House, Simon&Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Hachette. I'll list the main advantages of being EFTA00691982 published by them below and explain whether they're sustainable or not. Extensive print distribution and sales New books by big 5 publishers end up in all the bookstores at launch.... 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