An amazing one-minute bit of fun at the interactive prompt

[Roy Smith]

In article <87oc679bl2.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> writes:
> 
> > Compute � � e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
> 
> Very cool! I love � nerdery.
> 
> 
> Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> writes:
> 
> > > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
> >
> > That should be:  pi plus-or-minus e
> 
> It was in my reader. Perhaps your server has encoding trouble?

He was probably reading the nroff man page.

(ducking and running)