Newsgroups: sprouts-theory
From: Dan Hoey <Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:16:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Further thoughts on Peltier-Purvis

Jeff Peltier wrote:
> Yes this is true and really amazing as 4spots has genus 1°²·· and 0L2 has
> 2¹4.., how is that sum of the two has genus 3°²°·· ?

2^14 is not tame.  You can't tell the genus of the sum from the genus
of the addends unless all are tame.

Dan