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Re: Dr. Bill Gates, Philanthropist, Genius, and Visionary. FSF? What has


From: John Bailo
Subject: Re: Dr. Bill Gates, Philanthropist, Genius, and Visionary. FSF? What has it done?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:07:26 -0700
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Karen Hill wrote:

Honorary PhDs are real degrees.  In fact in academic circles, an
honorary PhD is thought of very highly because to earn one a person has
to accomplish a great deal in life rather than just sit through 7 years
of school like other doctors.

One also hopes they make large donations to the University's trust fund.

Once again, his PhDs are not pretend.  They are legitimate degrees.
Bill Gates has an Erdos number of 4 thanks to his published
mathematical paper with Christos H. Papadimitriou BTW.


 Gates, William H.; Papadimitriou, Christos H.
Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal.
Discrete Math. 27 (1979), no. 1, 47--57.

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lliao/cis320f05/lec6.pdf


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