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#1 2006-11-13 14:09:49

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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CORDIAN knot (Gordian)

Google counts on Nov. 13, 2006
1,330,000 “Gordian knot”
154 “Cordian knot”

A “Gordian knot” is a very tough and apparently insolvable problem. A knot made out of a cord must be a “cordian knot.”

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badly as a Cordian knot. We eventually. resolved the problem of the intermingling of. states by introducing the parameter …
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1878-1879 ArticlesAJ Hall has severed the Cordian knot , and will no longer lay the golden egg for the Doctor . AJ has platted a portion of his farm into lots , and will sell …
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Manifest On-Line v3… the problems of how you look at share options and how you resolve them, I would use the example of Alexander with the cordian knot and cut it all out. ...
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