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Letter: Pentagonal power

Published 27 May 2009

From John Davies

It is ironic that in the week the Enigma puzzle featured a pentagon with each apex joined to a central point, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy (2 May, p 24). The Chrysler symbol is just such a pentagon.

Not nominative determinism: perhaps predictive semiology?

Haverbreaks, Lancaster, UK

Issue no. 2710 published 30 May 2009

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