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1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
Heracles joins military under draft lottery system.
Achilles and Ajax play dice to determine who will attend the Lucky Spasm Dice Academy.
Council of algorithms honors the life and work of Omar Khayyam.
Omar Khayyam invents new class of Gnomon algorithm, anticipates Brownian ratchet.
New form of Brownian ratchet results from work by polymath Omar Khayyam.
"Hello World" computer program from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate Brownian ratchet.

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+File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
 File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
 File:Heracles at Behistun.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|[[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]] joins military under [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] system.