You'd better rescind your hasty stereotype that Bean is a guy, too, while you're at it [evil grin e]I don't know if belligerentyouth thought I was a guy, but I just threw that into the stereotype to make it that much more different than the truth!
(By the way, I don't particularly like the sound of "compactified" either. However, I feel that (a) it expressed exactly what the mathematicians wanted it to, and (b) scientists are always being criticized for one thing or another, and I'm tired of people not understanding why we do what we do. That's all.)
Cheers to all.
