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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: An interesting limit problem.
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- In article <24912@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
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- >Then I am disappointed in Arnol'd who should know better about what the
- >phrase "the exception proves the rule" means.
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- Yes, I used to get bent out of shape about this, but I think that from
- sheer force of mass misusage the phrase "the exception proves the rule"
- has now changed its meaning, and means what everybody thinks it means
- (as opposed to what it originally meant). Personally I think the original
- makes a lot more sense, but the new meaning has become so dominant that
- the original meaning has practically become a piece of trivia.
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
-