And now... scurvy!

Just saw this over at http://zompist.wordpress.com/. Very interesting article on the history of our knowledge of scurvy and how the well-known cure of lemon juice became "lost" due to bad processing of additional information.

Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the interleave operator

...OK, this has absolutely nothing to do with INTERCAL, that's just what the word "interleave" called to mind.

Table now goes to 16. And with that, I'm going to stop this nonsense. These things take too long to compute and aren't actually very useful. I am going to continue with my classification, of course, and the results will take the form of large tables, but they'll be tables that don't take so damn long to compute, and will be heavily compressed compared to these enormous ones.

-Harry