From: "Matthew Davis" 
Subject: Re: (urth) A Fish story
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:46:11 +0100


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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject: RE: (urth) A Fish story


> > What to make of his name "Rab Sammon"? I don't know.
>
> Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Irish legend of
> the Salmon of Wisdom. Then there's always "Samhain."
>
> But I haven't read the story...

Rab as a contraction of rabbi? Contraction of Robert?

Apparently Sammon as a surname is 1. a contraction of Solomon. 2. a varient
of Salmon. 3. a variant of Seaman.
Also, apparently there's something called a Sammon projection which is a
nonlinear mapping of high dimensional vectors onto a two dimensional space.

None of these seem highly pertinent.


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