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gtsnexpyesterday at 2:02 PM1 replyview on HN

This awesome. Could you perhaps remember the title of the book you lost?


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hilbert42yesterday at 8:09 PM

I wish I could but it's s long while ago. More precisely the book wasn't lost but loaned to someone who never returned it and I lost track of him.

The book was a harback with a bright yellow dust jacket and I think its title was printed in red. It was about 300 pages and was no lightweight, full of resonance equations, tables etc.—the sort of book you'd find in the lab of a commercial crystal manufacturer.

Can't remember the price but it was damned expensive. At times over the years I've had need to refer to it and I still get a bit peeved when I think about it.

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