Extremely humble in this statement. He was hugely influential in statistics (Cramer-Rao lower bound, etc) and somewhat recently his work was also quite relevant to RL, eg with Rao-Blackwellization of gradient estimators.
> This was because of the monetary denomination of the Indian rupee at the time, where 16 Annas made a Rupee, 12 Kanis made an Anna and 4 Dammidies made a Kani.
I had a vague idea about Annas and never knew about the other two, but I realize have encountered shadows of all of these growing up.
My vague understanding of annas came from 25 paisa and 50 paisa coins being a thing, and being called நாலணா (4 annas) and எட்டணா (8 annas).
Kani I assume is காணி, and finally I understand what Bharathiyar was asking for when he asked "காணி நிலம் வேண்டும்" ("my wish is for meagre land worth a mere Kani").
Dammidi must be தம்படி, and survives mostly as an insult: "தம்படி பெறாது" = "this thing is not even worth a Dammidi".
Thanks. I'd assumed he was going for the humble, ascetic, "I don't need much" intent, but I should have known that isn't Bharatiyar's style! Asking for 1.32 acres fits better with the rest of the poem where Bharati doesn't hold back from expressing his (pretty reasonable) wants.
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One of the few times I've seen roads named after academicians and scientists.
edit: fixed typo
but I guess those are more internal roads :P
These streets named after scientists are easily the most interesting thing about living in Irvine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rao%E2%80%93Blackwell_theorem
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239
I had a vague idea about Annas and never knew about the other two, but I realize have encountered shadows of all of these growing up.
My vague understanding of annas came from 25 paisa and 50 paisa coins being a thing, and being called நாலணா (4 annas) and எட்டணா (8 annas).
Kani I assume is காணி, and finally I understand what Bharathiyar was asking for when he asked "காணி நிலம் வேண்டும்" ("my wish is for meagre land worth a mere Kani").
Dammidi must be தம்படி, and survives mostly as an insult: "தம்படி பெறாது" = "this thing is not even worth a Dammidi".
Ha! It survives as in insult in Telugu too: "He doesn't have an income of even a dammidi."