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Dear Dirichlet, Issue 17
Canines, Cliff Richard and conditioning find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
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Behind today's door... A quiz!
Christmas puzzles
Something for you to solve during the post-Christmas lull
Why is it so hard to pull two phone books apart?
Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?
Time turns backwards at the Spark Festival
The extreme weirdness of slow viscous flows, and why borrowers shouldn't use doggy paddle.