22 October 2013

dyadic

[dahy-ad-ik]

adjective

1. of or consisting of a dyad; being a group of two.
2. pertaining to the number 2.
noun
3. Mathematics . two or more dyads added together.
Origin:
1720–30; < Greek dyadikós. See dyad, -ic

Today’s aphorism

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

On this day

22 October 1797 – Andre-Jacques Garnerin becomes the world’s first sky-diver after jumping out of a balloon above Paris.

22 October 1932 – Notorious gangster, Pretty Boy Floyd, shot to death by FBI agents in Ohio.